[PATCH] platformFromTriple: fix to recognize Solaris triple (i386-pc-solaris2.11)

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

Hello Karel,

On 2014-01-13 at 18:13:55 +0100, Karel Gardas wrote:
> Hello Herbert,
>
> the fix in a little bit extended version is already up-stream:
> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commit/98a3feb23364897779dd665758949555a84dc5b8

well, it's a first step that's in the master branch, but GHC HEAD
currently tracks the stable Cabal branch (currently this is "1.18"[1])
as we want GHC to ship with a proper release of the Cabal lib.

> What is the process to ask ghc developers to update from upstream?

You'll need to persuade the Cabal devs to make the fix above available
in a stable branch; if the fix makes it into a Cabal release in time for
the final GHC 7.8 release, it will most likely be part of 7.8. However,
I don't know if there's a concrete plan for a Cabal-1.18.1.3 release
currently.

 [1]: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/commits/1.18