[Solaris bindist] ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 1

[Christian Maeder]

see https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8783 how this issue may be 
solved. Any (or both) of the two proposed patches work for me.

C.

Am 13.02.2014 14:01, schrieb Christian Maeder:
> Am 06.02.2014 15:27, schrieb Páli Gábor János:
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Merijn Verstraaten
>> <merijn at inconsistent.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:33 , Christian Maeder wrote:
>>>> or (as I've seen elsewhere) better (?)
>>>>
>>>> #!/usr/bin/env bash
>>>
>>> Definitely use this, FreeBSD (for example) does not ship with bash so
>>> /bin/bash will *not* exist.
>>
>> Please, do not introduce dependency on bash unless it is really
>> necessary.
>
> In fact ./configure detects "/bin/bash" as SHELL under Solaris, so this
> setting could be used (instead of hard coding "bin/sh")!
>
> (Under FreeBSD a proper other SHELL might be found by ./configure.)
>
> Many configure files of libraries also set SHELL this way.
>
> Yet, for this ghc-pwd-bindist script it is easier to make the script
> (Bourne) /bin/sh compatible. Yet, I have not found out, how this script
> is created!
>
> utils/ghc-pwd/ghc.mk contains
> "utils/ghc-pwd_dist-install_WANT_BINDIST_WRAPPER = YES"
> but then I'm lost what build-prog does from rules/build-prog.mk.
>
> Maybe somehow the code in
> libraries/Cabal/Cabal/Distribution/Simple/Program/Script.hs is called,
> then the second line should be changed from:
>
>      setEnv (var, Nothing)  = ["unset " ++ var, "export " ++ var]
>      setEnv (var, Just val) = ["export " ++ var ++ "=" ++ quote val]
> to:
>      setEnv (var, Nothing)  = ["unset " ++ var, "export " ++ var]
>      setEnv (var, Just val) = [var ++ "=" ++ quote val, "export " ++ var]
>
> I guess that is still POSIX compliant.
>
> Cheers Christian
>
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