Re: GHC 6.2.1 and FedoraCore2: ar-related build problem, looked like readline problem

> The correct way would probably be testing the exit code *and* stderr.
> There's already some support for this kind of stuff in our aclocal.m4
> IIRC, I'll have a look into it...

Testing stderr seemed horribly fragile to me, though: who knows
what people may or may not opt to write to stderr in various
versions of "ar" now or in the future? That's why I thought
looking for concrete evidence that the right thing actually
had happened might be a more solid solution.

Best,

/Henrik

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The University of Nottingham
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