On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:48:13PM -0700, Iavor Diatchki wrote:
Hello,
I was just trying to build the GHC-7.6 branch from source and the build failed with type-errors, because the libraries used by GHC have moved on since the release, and "sync all" just gets the most recent version.
Use this: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#Gettinga... to get the ghc-7.6 branch. Why do you want to build 7.6 but not 7.6.1, OOI?
More generally, I run into this problem all the time with people trying to build the branch I work on, so it really would be nice if we started using sub-modules to keep track of this dependency. I talked to folks at ICFP about this, and one idea was that we could check in the "fingerprint" for a branch into the repo, and track the dependencies this way, but this is
See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources#Tracking... The nightly build logs include a fingerprint.
exactly what git's submodule machinery does, so it seems pointless to implement the functionality which is already there with a standard interface. Thoughts?
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsConversion#Theperspectiveonsub... Thanks Ian