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

[Don Stewart]

Please proceed.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Daniel Díaz Casanueva
<dhelta.diaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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