[Haskell-cafe] Patches for (abandoned?) pcre-light

[Don Stewart]

Please update as necessary. I am unable to maintain this package now.

On Sunday, 13 April 2014, Daniel Díaz Casanueva <dhelta.diaz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There is no problem with the version of GHC installed. Library pcre-light
> is importing unsafePerformIO from Foreign, module that doesn't export this
> function since version 4.7.0.0 of the base package. That causes the build
> to fail for users of base-4.7.0.0. Importing this function from
> System.IO.Unsafe solves the problem. I have written to the maintainer as
> well, but did not received any answer yet.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Díaz.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Carter Schonwald <
> carter.schonwald at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','carter.schonwald at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>> please upgrace to 7.8.2 before trying to build anything, theres a *big*
>> bug in 7.8.1 type checker
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Nikolay Amiantov <nikoamia at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nikoamia at gmail.com');>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I've tried the new ghc-7.8.1 and have had an issue with building
>>> pcre-light as one of dependencies for my project. I've made a patch which
>>> fixes this, but I can't reach maintainer by e-mail -- what can I do in this
>>> situation? Also, the second (unrelated) question would be: how can I find a
>>> package which depends on it in my project? I have found no way to dump a
>>> dependency tree in cabal.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Nikolay.
>>>
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