Test.QuickCheck does not install (unbuildable) in HEAD

[guest]

Title says it all.

[duncan]

This is my fault and it should be fixed now, though that needs to be confirmed.

I was updating ghc-6.8 to bootstrap cabal correctly and then taking advantage of that fix to update several packages to use cabal-1.2 features and add the "cabal-version: >=1.2" to the .cabal files of those libs. Cabal needs to be bootstraped correctly for this to work, otherwise it does not know it's own version number and will barf when it tries to check "cabal-version: >=1.2".

So I fixed that in ghc-6.8 and updated a bunch of packages and validated. However many of those packages are aliased to packages used by ghc HEAD. QuickCheck? is one of them. So in the mean time ghc HEAD was still not bootstrapping Cabal correctly so it fell over when it found QuickCheck?.cabal specified "cabal-version: >=1.2". That's why it was unbuildable.

I've now validated and pushed the same fix to bootstrap Cabal in ghc HEAD (and updated Cabal to match Cabal HEAD while I was at it).

So it should now be fixed.

It's amazing, I validated dozens of patches today and still managed to break ghc HEAD once and ghc-6.8 three times. I broke ghc-6.8 twice (with the same mistake of tabs in .cabal files which I still don't know how it got through) and once due to breaking windows which I didn't pick up with validating on linux (that should also be fixed). Then as I said, I broke ghc HEAD without ever touching it, but because parts of it are aliased with parts from the ghc-6.8 which I was modifying.

The good news is that almost every core and extralib package builds with ghc-6.6 and 6.8 (where it makes sense for them to build with 6.6) and many also build with 6.4.

[simonmar]

Now fixed.