On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 01:54 +0000, C Rodrigues wrote:
Updating a package to work with Cabal 1.8, I found that the clean hook no longer gets a LocalBuildInfo parameter. I've been using the Distribution.Simple.Program facilities to run 'make'. Without access to a configured 'make' at cleanup time, I can't make clean.
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/133 The reason we felt it should never have had that optional parameter is that clean should work whether or not the package had previously been configured. Indeed it should not behave differently depending on if it had been configured or not.
I can call configureProgram myself to get the program, or just use System.Cmd. What's a good practice?
You can do either. Probably configureProgram is better since it lets someone override and use eg gmake instead of make. Duncan