Hello,

I am a big fan of darcs, but this morning it told me to report a bug
together with the output of 'darcs --exact-version'. So, here it is.
What more can I do ?

Cheers,

    /vincent

======= Error message ========
earendil-/tmp/Simulations > darcs pull           

Fail: bug in darcs!
Impossible case at Pull.lhs:194 compiled 09:21:24 May 30 2006
Please report this to bugs@darcs.net,
If possible include the output of 'darcs --exact-version'.

======= Output of 'darcs --exact-version' ========
earendil-/tmp/Simulations > darcs --exact-version
<1>
darcs compiled on May 30 2006, at 09:25:54
# configured Sat May 13 19:49:56 EDT 2006
./configure --no-create --no-recursion

Context:

[TAG 1.0.7
Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se>**20060513171438]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 15:55:51 +0000, Vincent Beffara wrote:
> I am a big fan of darcs, but this morning it told me to report a bug
> together with the output of 'darcs --exact-version'. So, here it is.
> What more can I do ?

Could you try darcs 1.0.8?

The bugtracker claims that this has been fixed.
Thanks,

> Eric Kow <eric.kow@gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 15:55:51 +0000, Vincent Beffara wrote:
> > I am a big fan of darcs, but this morning it told me to report a bug
> > together with the output of 'darcs --exact-version'. So, here it is.
> > What more can I do ?
> 
> Could you try darcs 1.0.8?

Actually I coudn't, for 2 reasons. The bad one is that I don't have the
failing repo anymore (it was in /tmp and vanished in a reboot) - my
mistake, I should have saved it somewhere, sorry ...

The good reason is that I am using the pre-built Mac OS X binaries I
found from the darcs web page, and they don't provide version 1.0.8
(last time I looked).

Just to let you know : the good people from the Fink project include the
last release of darcs. But, you have to build it yourself, which in turn
requires building haskell, which in turns requires building the GMP
library, which is done with all possible optimisations. So, compiling on
my G5 at home, it becomes G5-specific and doesn't work on my G4 laptop.
And building haskell on a G4 laptop takes ages - so, no easy way of having
a more recent version of darcs on this laptop.

Sorry for the ranting and for the lack of help ...

> The bugtracker claims that this has been fixed.

So be it then.

Thanks,

  /vincent
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 18:48:48 +0000, Vincent Beffara wrote:
> Actually I coudn't, for 2 reasons. The bad one is that I don't have the
> failing repo anymore (it was in /tmp and vanished in a reboot) - my
> mistake, I should have saved it somewhere, sorry ...

Too bad.  Marking as resolved.  Do let us know if you run into any more
trouble.

> The good reason is that I am using the pre-built Mac OS X binaries I
> found from the darcs web page, and they don't provide version 1.0.8
> (last time I looked).

The wiki claims that there are builds for 1.0.9rc2, which might be worth
trying
http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/CategoryBinaries#head-f3112101885cd252d241a0595468efdf69a85742

> Just to let you know : the good people from the Fink project include the
> last release of darcs. But, you have to build it yourself, which in turn
> requires building haskell, which in turns requires building the GMP
> library, which is done with all possible optimisations. So, compiling on
> my G5 at home, it becomes G5-specific and doesn't work on my G4 laptop.
> And building haskell on a G4 laptop takes ages - so, no easy way of having
> a more recent version of darcs on this laptop.

I understand that.  One option might be to download the binaries for the
Haskell compiler, and use _that_ to build darcs.  Personally, I just got
used to leaving the computer to compile overnight.