The .cabal lists the version as pre3, but I think I just recently
pulled the "tag rc1" path.

Anyway, after running "./configure --prefix=${MY-PREFIX}" without
error, I attempted the following:

$ make && make install
Rebuild dependencies ...

src/Darcs/Bug.lhs:9:7:
    Could not find module `Text.Regex':
      Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
make: *** [.depend] Error 1

This is on Ubuntu 8.04 Beta, with the Ubuntu packages for GHC 6.8.2
installed.  The core install of GHC on Ubuntu does NOT include any of
the following packages:

 regex-compat
 regex-base
 regex-posix

-Antoine

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:45:06AM -0000, Antoine Latter wrote:
> The .cabal lists the version as pre3, but I think I just recently
> pulled the "tag rc1" path.

The cabal file is unused, and I have now removed it.  Thanks for pointing
this out!

> Anyway, after running "./configure --prefix=${MY-PREFIX}" without
> error, I attempted the following:
> 
> $ make && make install
> Rebuild dependencies ...
> 
> src/Darcs/Bug.lhs:9:7:
>     Could not find module `Text.Regex':
>       Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> make: *** [.depend] Error 1

Can you send the output of ./configure? We do check for the useability of
Text.Regex (which is why I want to be sure those tests are working fine),
so this is a confusing error to me.  And one we definitely want to fix!

David

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:14:54PM -0500, Antoine Latter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:43 AM, David Roundy <bugs@darcs.net> wrote:
> >  Can you send the output of ./configure? We do check for the useability of
> >  Text.Regex (which is why I want to be sure those tests are working fine),
> >  so this is a confusing error to me.  And one we definitely want to fix!
> 
> Attached is the output of the config.log.
> 
> It looks like it caught the fact that I don't have the regex packages
> installed, but the configure script still exits with success.

I'm sorry, I've made this mistake before when asking for configure output.
Can I see the actual output of configure, as in:

./configure > out

and then give me the out file? I've never been able to effectively discern
from config.log what was going on, except when I've also got the output of
configure.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:43 AM, David Roundy <bugs@darcs.net> wrote:
>
>  Can you send the output of ./configure? We do check for the useability of
>  Text.Regex (which is why I want to be sure those tests are working fine),
>  so this is a confusing error to me.  And one we definitely want to fix!
>

Attached is the output of the config.log.

It looks like it caught the fact that I don't have the regex packages
installed, but the configure script still exits with success.

-Antoine

>  David
>
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>
>
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Attachments

• config.log

Hmm :-/

I tried replacing regex-compat with regex-compat-xxx in my configure.ac so as to
simulate the failure, but when I do so the configure script fails as it should.
 Really not sure why it would be passing for aslatter.

Here's the relevant piece of his config.log:
=================================8<=================
configure: failed program was:
-- #line 4647 "configure"
import Text.Regex( mkRegex, matchRegex, Regex )
main = seq (mkRegex undefined) (putStr "Hello world.\n")

end of failed program.
configure:4670: result: no; and neither in package regex-compat
configure:4684: checking for module Network.HTTP( urlEncode )
=================================8<=================

Notice how it keeps going after the regex-compat failure

Antoine, is there any chance this is something we've already fixed?  Could you
try with 2.0.0 + 121 patches or higher? (i.e. darcs get http://darcs.net)

The configure script has gone away so I think we can safely wont-fix this. 
Thanks for the report!