Getting source code

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

I've updated the "Getting the GHC sources page" -- you might want to check I got it right. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources In general, though, yes it's a Wiki and you are not only welcome but positively encouraged to make it more helpful.  So go right ahead.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
| Richard Giraud
| Sent: 08 November 2007 04:08
| To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Getting source code
|
| I figured out a way to work around it.
|
| Instead of pulling all patches at once, I pulled 100 at a time.
|
| Instead of using "darcs pull -a" in step 3, I used "darcs pull".  I held
| down "y" until about 100 or so patches were accepted and then hit "d" to
| stop applying patches.  After doing this 6 times, all patches were
| installed.
|
| It would be nice to have the issue corrected, if possible, or have it
| documented on the developer page.  It would also be nice to have the
| case issue with Mac OS X document, as recent file systems have been
| case-insensitive for a while.
|
| Should I add this info to the page?  I'm not sure what the policy is
| around wiki edits.
|
| Richard
|
| richardg at richardg.name wrote:
| > Hello
| >
| > I'm trying to get the source code for development purposes (helping add
| > some Haddock documentation for TH).  I tried following the steps listed on
| > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources and
| > ran into trouble.
| >
| > I downloaded ghc-HEAD-2007-08-29-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2 and
| > continued through the steps.  On step 3, I received an error message from
| > darcs:
| > $ darcs pull -a
| > Pulling from "http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc"...
| > This is the GHC darcs repository (HEAD branch)
| >
| > For more information, visit the GHC developer wiki at
| >   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc
| > **********************
| > darcs: getCurrentDirectory: resource exhausted (Too many open files)
| >
| >
| >
| > I tried using darcs get but I think I ran into the same case issue as on
| > Windows:
| > $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc
| > This is the GHC darcs repository (HEAD branch)
| >
| > For more information, visit the GHC developer wiki at
| >   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc
| > **********************
| > Copying patch 17349 of 17349... done.
| > Applying patch 12 of 17349... Unapplicable patch:
| > Thu Jan 11 07:26:13 MST 1996  partain
| >   * [project @ 1996-01-11 14:06:51 by partain]
| >
| > darcs failed:  Error applying hunk to file ./ghc/includes/rtsTypes.lh
| >
| >
| > I'm using GHC 6.6.1 (binary distribution) and darcs 1.0.9 (can't remember
| > if it's binary distribution or if I compiled it myself) on Mac OS X
| > 10.4.10 for Intel.
| >
| > Any help would be appreciated.
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Richard
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