[PATCH] haskell-src build fix for ghc-7.2.1

[Conrad Parker]

On 8 November 2011 18:04, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> haskell-src is still unable to build with ghc-7.2.x, and a patch has
> been available since August.
>
> In order to fix this I'm planning to put a new release of haskell-src
> on hackage with the haskell98 reference removed, and set the
> maintainer to myself as part of the haskell-pkg-janitors github group
> ... within the next 24 hrs or so, unless anyone strongly objects (eg.
> by updating the existing repo and uploading a package :).

Done: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-src

cheers,

Conrad.

>
> On 21 October 2011 12:50, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there someone I can poke specifically who has the commit bit for
>> for the haskell-src darcs repository? I would like to get one of these
>> two patches applied - preferably the one which removes all reference
>> to the 'haskell98' packages.
>>
>> While I don't have released libraries that rely haskell98 on it, I do
>> have build-scripts that use it to generate code, and I prefer having
>> standard libraries installed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Antoine
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the attached patch for haskell-src conditionally depends on haskell98
>>> only for ghc < 7.2.1.
>>>
>>> A similar patch was sent to libraries@ by Adam Sampson on Aug 14,
>>> removing the haskell98 dependency entirely as "Recent versions of
>>> Happy don't require it any more", which may be better.
>>>
>>> (There has been no response to Adam's mail, perhaps listing libraries@
>>> as maintainer is not so useful).
>>>
>>> Conrad.
>>>
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