As it was getting too expensive to patch out use of the "new" syscalls
We could revisit this if someone has hardware with an older kernel
that's still being maintained, but I've verified that the Synology
NAS that had used a too old kernel version has been updated to 2.6.32.
Needs ghc 7.6.1, so minimum base version increased slightly. All builds
are well above this version of ghc, and debian oldstable is as well.
Code that could use lambdacase can be found by running:
git grep -B 1 'case ' | less
and searching in less for "<-"
This commit was sponsored by andrea rota.
They need unix on non-windows, for Utility.Env, which Build.Configure uses,
but cabal can't express that in a custom-setup stanza.
To avoid this problem, Utility.Env would need to be moved into
unix-compat..
Windows needs the setenv package in custom-setup, but I don't want to
pull it in on unix, which would probably break some builds and need more
work. Instead, split out setEnv to a separate module.
Quite likely, unix-compat will get a portable environment layer, and
then both modules can be removed from here.
This commit was sponsored by Øyvind Andersen Holm.
Now that windows is using unix-compat 0.5, don't need a dep on Win32
or unix in custom-setup, so the stanza can be parsed by cabal's limited
parser again.
Note that unix-compat 0.5 is needed on windows, but the cabal file
hasn't bumped it yet, since that would necessarily affect non-windows
builds. Instead, the stack-windows.yaml makes sure the right version is
pulled in.
This commit was sponsored by Jeff Goeke-Smith on Patreon.
