#177: Check Include-dirs, extra-lib-dirs etc exist at configure time. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.2.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.6 | Platform: Windows ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * priority: normal => low * difficulty: easy (<4 hours) => normal * milestone: Cabal-1.6 => Comment: So I think the decision is that we should only require that relative paths exist, not absolute paths. Ticket #262 covers checking that libs, and headers can actually be found. We should check that the configure flags `--extra-lib-dirs=`, `--extra- include-dirs=` do point to directories that actually exist. The only other improvement we could make would be to somehow notice that joining two adjacent components of a directory field with a space form a valid absolute path that actually exists, when both components do not, and in such a case suggest that the user perhaps meant to use a path with an embedded space in which case they must use "" Haskell String syntax. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/177#comment:10 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects