no darcs and no VERSION file
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 pathfind . -name '*VERSION*' turned up no hits, so I guess that the VERSION file is being accidentally omitted from the tarball.
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| Version | 6.10.2 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Compiler |
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