[GHC] #3312: no darcs and no VERSION file

[GHC]

#3312: no darcs and no VERSION file
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Reporter:  zooko             |          Owner:                  
    Type:  bug               |         Status:  new             
Priority:  normal            |      Component:  Compiler        
 Version:  6.10.2            |       Severity:  normal          
Keywords:                    |       Testcase:                  
      Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
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 Trying to port ghc to OpenBSD/sparc64 so that I can build darcs there so
 that I can use darcs, I got this tarball:

 http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-HEAD-2009-05-16-ghc-corelibs-
 testsuite.tar.bz2

 And then started following the instructions on
 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting .  The
 {{{./configure --enable-hc-boot}}} step failed with:

 {{{
 configure: error: failed to detect version date: check that darcs is in
 your path
 }}}

 {{{find . -name '*VERSION*'}}} turned up no hits, so I guess that the
 {{{VERSION}}} file is being accidentally omitted from the tarball.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3312>
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