patch applied (ghc): Add the msysCORE*.tar.gz tarball to the list of tarballs we unpack

[Simon Marlow]

On 19/11/2009 11:54, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:46:00AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> On 19/11/2009 00:44, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>>> Wed Nov 18 11:55:23 PST 2009  Ian Lynagh<igloo at earth.li>
>>>     * Add the msysCORE*.tar.gz tarball to the list of tarballs we unpack
>>>
>>>       M ./configure.ac +2
>>
>> Hmm, do we really have to ship MSYS bits with GHC too?  I'd really like
>> to avoid doing this if possible.  This is just for Perl, right?  Why
>> can't we carry on using a mingw build of Perl?
>
> The perl we're using is the only one I could see on
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
>
> It's possible there's one in another tarball, but if so I don't know how
> to find it short of downloading and unpacking them all. Also, I'd be
> surprised if the tarball contents overlapped.

Why not just use the Perl that we shipped with GHC in the past?  I don't 
know where it originally came from, but I think we've been using the 
same binary for years now, with each new distribution copying it out of 
the previous one :)

Cheers,
	Simon