[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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