#577: an executable and library differing in capitalization use the same build dir on case-insensitive filesystems ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: simonmic | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Discussion from #darcs: {{{ [5:56pm] <Riastradh> While compiling the Darcs library, the build process creates a directory called $BUILDDIR/build/Darcs. While compiling the Darcs executable, it creates $BUILDDIR/build/darcs. On Mac OS X, these pathnames both name a common directory. [5:57pm] <kowey> yeah, that's mildly irritating [5:57pm] <kowey> I have to run dist/build/Darcs/darcs (tab-completion) [5:57pm] <Riastradh> Does this affect the output of the build? [5:57pm] <kowey> no apparent problems here [5:58pm] <Riastradh> OK. [5:58pm] <Riastradh> (You could, of course, create the directory with a lowercase name to begin with and then build.) [5:58pm] <Riastradh> (Also, some shells, such as zsh, will do case-insensitive completion.) [5:58pm] <kowey> I guess no other cabal package out there simultaneously has a library starting with Foo as a top level bit of namespace and an executable named foo [5:58pm] <gwern> Riastradh: bash of course can do case-insenistive completion if figured [5:58pm] <gwern> *configured [5:59pm] <gwern> kowey: xmonad? [5:59pm] <kowey> oh yeah! [5:59pm] <gwern> import XMonad.*... 'exec xmonad' [5:59pm] <gwern> and xmonad ain't the only example either [6:00pm] <gwern> yi, autoproc... anything doing the executable-library thing is likely to have that }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/577 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects