Unfriendly HEAD is unfriendly

[Judah Jacobson]

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Austin Seipp <mad.one at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For the past two weeks or so I have been unable to build the latest
> GHC HEAD from the main darcs development branch (I believe the last
> one I managed to build here on OS X 10.5 was 20080720.) From the looks
> of it this is due to the flux of changes hitting the build system
> along with many many other things going on I'm sure (and your work
> will never go unappreciated as far as I'm concerned.)
>

For what it's worth, I believe that all of the OS X-related
build-breakers have been fixed; the the up-to-date HEAD works for me
on 10.5, x86.  If it doesn't for you, make sure you've used
./darcs-all to update all the packages like base that have recently
had exception-related changes, and that you've followed Ian's
instructions from:

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2008-July/043767.html


It seems like most of the recent build breakages have been with
patches not being validated on a complete set of OSes (OS X and
Windows, in particular).  In last week's IRC meeting, Neil Mitchell
mentioned:

> i've always wondered why there isn't a pending repo, and patches get
> moved from pending to branch after a the buildbots kick in? might ensure
> you never end up with validation failures

It seems to me that process would be more friendly to those of us who
run different OSes than the primary GHC developers :-)


By the way: is there anyone able to host an OS X x86 buildbot?  It
seems like a decently-sized hole in our testsuite.  I'd offer to run
it, but my iMac isn't powered on 24/7.


Best,
-Judah