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

[Daniel Díaz Casanueva]

If given permission, I can submit a new version with the problem fixed.
However, this does not mean I would like to become the maintainer. But,
yeah, I would like to see a working version uploaded.


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Don Stewart <dons00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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>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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