[darcs-users] Building darcs hangs...

[Eric Kow]

On 25 Jul 2012, at 18:54, Ben Franksen wrote:

> ...in the cabal configure step, which can be seen when adding the -v switch 
> to cabal install:
> 
> #...snipped long configure output
> creating dist/setup
> ./dist/setup/setup build --verbose=2
> darcs changes --from-tag 2.9.1 --count
> # now it hangs; when I do a Ctrl-C it continues:
> Building library...
> creating dist/build
> #...etc
> 
> Note: this is a repo I checked out with a lazy get. Is this expected?

Sounds like the hang might be Darcs fetching patches so that it can do changes?

> Can I disable the configure step that seems to take forever?

One thing you could do is edit the Setup.lhs and change versionPatches to return Nothing

> BTW this is an old problem, not caused by any recent change.
> 

Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>

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