[darcs-users] retiring GHC 6.6 support after darcs 2.3 (2009-07)

Karel Gardas karel.gardas at centrum.cz
Mon Feb 16 07:06:20 UTC 2009


Judah Jacobson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 21:22:41 +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote:
>>> Didn't you that by depending on haskeline? At least I couldn't build
>>> haskeline with ghc-6.6 on openbsd.
>> Actually, the Haskeline dependency still hasn't made it in yet because
>> of the trouble folks had installing haskeline.  Judah is still working
>> on it.  For what it's worth, I managed to install haskeline on ghc-6.6
>> on Ubuntu, although I think I was using a cabal-install binary built
>> with ghc 6.10.
>>
>> Could you report any trouble on
>>  http://trac.haskell.org/haskeline/wiki
>> ?
> 
> Yes, please do so.  The latest release of Haskeline is supposed to
> work with ghc-6.6, but it wouldn't surprise me if it needed a tweak
> for OpenBSD.

FYI: haskeline 0.6.1.2 was successfully installed on my OpenBSD 4.3/i386
using the OpenBSD's provided ghc and after using Eric's advice what to
do. :-)

See: http://buildbot.darcs.net/builders/karel%20openbsd%20OpenBSD-4.3%20i386

Although I still don't know why the darcs builds fail on the bot...

Karel


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