2008/6/19 Duncan Coutts
Ok, so the issue is that only the autoconfUserHooks looks for .buildinfo files. The assumption was that configure scripts would want to write a .buildinfo file while Setup.hs scripts can do it directly without needing to go via any file.
So probably the easiest thing to do is to use the autoconfUserHooks anyway and make sure you override postConf otherwise it'll try to find a ./configure script to run.
The reason I couldn't reproduce it before of course is that I was making assumptions about what you were doing and using autoconfUserHooks :-)
Well, partly my fault. I was using defaultUserHooks, but this is now marked as deprecated, so I changed it to simpleUserHooks. Make a change, something breaks, is there a connection? :-) We were always overriding the postConf hook, so using autoconfUserHooks as a defaultUserHooks replacement seems to work. Thanks, Alistair