Re: patch applied (cabal): "Fix the GHC HEAD build: Don't use deprecated catch function"

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:26 -0700, Ian Lynagh wrote:

Tue Apr 26 16:20:15 PDT 2011 Ian Lynagh * Fix the GHC HEAD build: Don't use deprecated catch function We could make this conditional, to support old GHC versions, but I don't think it is worth the cost to support 6.8. By the time this Cabal is released, you will need at least 6.12 (if not higher) to build the GHC it comes with.

M ./Distribution/Simple/Build/PathsModule.hs -2 +5

I just recently applied a patch here to support ghc-6.8, sent in by a contributor. There's two issues, one is building Cabal with ghc-6.8, and the other is using a recent Cabal version to work with ghc-6.8 at runtime. The generated paths module has to compile with the target compiler, including older ghc and hugs, nhc etc. Duncan