Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:08:29PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:

dagit:

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

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I wanted to know if anyone who is using distros with 6.6 need to be able to build current releases of darcs from source.

If there turns out to be a significant issue with Darcs 1, I need to be able to build a recent version of Darcs in my Debian stable chroot.

I see. If you're using the darcs 1 binary I would encourage you to upgrade. If you meant darcs 1 repository format then I would encourage you to consider darcs 1 hashed repository format. You don't even have to upgrade the public facing repo. Just 'darcs get --hashed ...'.

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The alternative is to build a static version of Darcs that I can install on my stable (soon to be oldstable) servers. Last time I checked, building static Darcs didn't work.

Interesting. Yes, building darcs statically is something we should probably do on the build bots.

Statically linked darcs should be trivial with the cabal version.

The bug is in debian's libcurl. David