As for using the 6.6.x branch rather than HEAD, how should I modify these commands to do that? Presumably with some kind of --tag option to darcs? (how do I list the tags?) #!/bin/sh darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc cd ghc chmod +x darcs-all ./darcs-all --extra get cd .. mkdir ghcbuild cd ghcbuild lndir ../ghc autoreconf sh boot ./configure make su -c 'make install' Also, is there a way to get only the unix package and not all of ghc? For instance, can I not use this repository somehow?: http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/unix/ Also, how many other people are affected by the bug in unix? I am wondering why not just make another release of the package to fix the bug, so that the version which is provided as a .tar.gz for download is not buggy. Surely the release process is automated... Thanks for your continuing help, Frederik On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:54:16AM +1000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:30 +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
Hello Stefan,
Thanks for your reply. Now I have found a repository here, is this the right one?
http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/unix/
However, it doesn't build for me:
$ darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/unix/ ... $ cas configure --user --prefix=$HOME && cas build && cas install --user
Setup.hs:17:30: Couldn't match expected type `UserHooks' against inferred type `Maybe UserHooks'
It would be much easier for you to use the GHC 6.6.x branch rather than trying to use the HEAD branch which as you can see depends on development versions of various other things (including in this case a development version of cabal).
Or as was suggested as an temporary workaround just compile your code -fvia-C and then load it up in GHCi.
Duncan