dagit: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I wanted to know if anyone who is using distros with 6.6 need to be > >> able to build current releases of darcs from source. > > > > If there turns out to be a significant issue with Darcs 1, I need to be > > able to build a recent version of Darcs in my Debian stable chroot. > > I see. If you're using the darcs 1 binary I would encourage you to > upgrade. If you meant darcs 1 repository format then I would > encourage you to consider darcs 1 hashed repository format. You don't > even have to upgrade the public facing repo. Just 'darcs get --hashed > ...'. > > > The alternative is to build a static version of Darcs that I can install on > > my stable (soon to be oldstable) servers. Last time I checked, building > > static Darcs didn't work. > > Interesting. Yes, building darcs statically is something we should > probably do on the build bots.
Statically linked darcs should be trivial with the cabal version. Let's see: $ cabal build --ghc-options='-optl-static -lcurl -lssl -lcrypto' Done. $ ldd dist/build/darcs/darcs not a dynamic executable Easy. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe