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

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Ian Lynagh:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 04:01:35PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty  
> wrote:
>>
>> 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):
>
> Validate with 6.10.4 on OS X is working fine for me; are you sure all
> your repos are up-to-date? In particular, this patch in the unix repo
> should fix the above problem:
>
> Fri Sep 11 17:07:36 BST 2009  Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>
>  * Allow building with base 4.2

No, I must have pulled shortly before you pushed that patch.  It works  
with that patch.

BTW, there are currently four failing tests on Intel Mac OS:

> Unexpected failures:
>    2302(normal)
>    2816(ghci)
>    ghci028(ghci)
>    print021(ghci)

Cheers,
Manuel