HEADS UP! Re: patch applied (ghc): Change the representation of the package database

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Simon Marlow:
> On 10/09/2009 13:02, Simon Marlow wrote:
>> Thu Sep 10 03:27:03 PDT 2009  Simon Marlow<marlowsd at gmail.com>
>>   * Change the representation of the package database
>
> I inadvertently broke bootstrapping with GHC <= 6.10.1, due to a  
> small change in the way that ghc -M works in 6.10.2 and later.  The  
> workaround is therefore to use 6.10.2 or later.  I'll fix it  
> tomorrow; sorry for the breakage folks.

I just tried to validate with 6.10.4 and got (on Mac OS):

> "inplace/bin/ghc-cabal" configure --with-ghc="/Users/chak/Code/ghc- 
> test/inplace/bin/dummy-ghc" --with-ghc-pkg="/Users/chak/Code/ghc- 
> test/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg" --with-gcc="gcc" --configure-option=--with- 
> cc="gcc"  --with-hscolour="/usr/local/bin/HsColour" --configure- 
> option=CFLAGS="-Wall  " --configure-option=LDFLAGS="  " -- dist- 
> install libraries/unix
> Configuring unix-2.3.1.0...
> ghc-cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> base ==4.1.*
> make[1]: *** [libraries/unix/dist-install/package-data.mk] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> limitingfactor chak 22 (.../Code/ghc-test):

Is that the same problem?

Manuel