Hi. I'm trying to install darcs from source on my Scientific Linux machine (no
root privileges, so I can't do a binary install). I had to get the Haskell
compiler first --  version "ghc-6.8.0.20070914".

Using this, the darcs compilation fails at the configure stage, seemingly
confused by GHC.Handle versions. Very space output attached.

Is this a Darcs bug or a Haskell bug? I found mention of something similar from
a much earlier version of darcs, on MacOsX.

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• DARCS_RES

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:10:24PM -0000, Bernard Kelly wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to install darcs from source on my Scientific Linux machine (no
> root privileges, so I can't do a binary install). I had to get the Haskell
> compiler first --  version "ghc-6.8.0.20070914".
> 
> Using this, the darcs compilation fails at the configure stage, seemingly
> confused by GHC.Handle versions. Very space output attached.
> 
> Is this a Darcs bug or a Haskell bug? I found mention of something similar from
> a much earlier version of darcs, on MacOsX.

Sounds like it's just an incompatibility with ghc 6.8.  We haven't (so far
as I know) compile darcs with ghc 6.8, since it hasn't been released yet
(has it?).  Presumably we'll need to add another configure check to handle
the API change.  In the meantime, you could compile with ghc 6.6.x.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University

Thanks for the advice. No, ghc-6.8 is just "stable development" right now. I
tried dropping back to 6.6.1 -- the current latest stable release, but ... it
won't compile. GHC (which I never used before today) seems to require previous
versions of itself for installation, and though these are available as RPMs,
again, I don't have root on this machine. This isn't a DARCS [problem, though.

I should add that while ghc-6.8 isn't an officail stable release, it -is-
publicly available from their webpage.

Seems to have been addressed by these patches (in unstable):

Mon Oct 22 12:29:02 CEST 2007  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * make_changelog requires Text.PrettyPrint which is in package pretty in GHC 6.8

Thu Oct 18 16:21:25 CEST 2007  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * GHC 6.8 needs containers package

Thu Oct 18 15:57:14 CEST 2007  Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>
  * configure hack to deal with openFd -> fdToHandle' renaming in GHC 6.8