[darcs-users] [GNU/Open]/Solaris support and getSymbolicLinkStatus issue (SOLVED)
David Roundy
daveroundy at gmail.com
Mon May 5 21:57:02 UTC 2008
By the way, we could put into the configure script a little test that
checks for the buggy getSymbolicLinkStatus and works around it by just
calling getFileStatus. I don't know if there are enough solaris
systems out there to warrant this.
David
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> in recent weeks there was some ongoing discussion about darcs Solaris
> support and about darcs issues related to the broken
> getSymbolicLinkStatus GHC function on this mailing list.
>
> I've gone ahead and give a try to compile GHC (STABLE) myself. After 2
> days of failing attempts I've been successful.
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2263
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2265
>
> So now, I do have working GHC together with much better working darcs
> head. As you can see here:
>
> http://allmydata.org/buildbot-darcs/builders/karel/builds/11/steps/test/logs/stdio
> http://allmydata.org/buildbot-darcs/builders/karel/builds/11/steps/test_configure/logs/stdio
>
> a lot of tests are working, but it seems there are still some issues in
> comparison with for example linux.
>
> So simple advice to all darcs/Solaris users is: recompile and install
> GHC from its STABLE branch (future 6.8.3 release)
>
> Cheers,
> Karel
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