[darcs-users] fwd: volunteers with always-on boxes sought for automated testing

[Jules Colding]

On 03/03/2008, at 16.50, David Roundy wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:15:07PM +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
>> OK, I'll do that first thing tomorrow. Where do I get buildbot from
>> (stupid question?) ?
>
> http://buildbot.net
>
> I'm not sure how the Mac install will go.

The buildbot installation didn't go well as you noticed in my earlier  
mail. I've now tried to install ghc from darwinports so that I at  
least could run the tests under Mac OS X 10.5. That did not go well  
either. Has anyone ever installed ghc on leopard?

Thanks,
   jules



colding at apollo ~ $ sudo port install ghc
Password:
--->  Configuring ghc
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:  
shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.6.1" && ./configure -- 
prefix=/opt/local --prefix=/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/destroot//opt/local -- 
mandir=/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/destroot//opt/local/share/ 
man/ --with-readline-includes=/opt/local/include --with-readline- 
libraries=/opt/local/lib --disable-openal --disable-alut " returned  
error 1
Command output: checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin9.2.0
checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin9.2.0
checking target system type... i686-apple-darwin9.2.0
Canonicalised to: i386-apple-darwin
checking for path to top of build tree... /opt/local/var/macports/ 
build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
.macports.org_release_ports_lang_ghc/work/ghc-6.6.1
checking for ghc... no
checking for ghc-pkg matching ... no
checking for ghc-pkg... no
checking whether ghc has readline package... no
checking for nhc... no
checking for nhc98... no
checking for hbc... no
configure: error: GHC is required unless bootstrapping from .hc files.

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.