#177: Check Include-dirs, extra-lib-dirs etc exist at configure time. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.2.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.6 | Platform: Windows ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): We now check that relative paths do exist, eg: {{{ include-dir: include }}} But we do not check absolute paths. The rationale is that relative paths are part of the package so if they're missing then we have a problem, but absolute paths are on the system and these might be just a list of possible paths that may exist on some systems and not others. Incidentally this would help in the original complaint {{{ include-dirs: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include, C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include\server, . extra-lib-dirs: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include, C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include\server }}} We would get a warning: {{{ Warning: 'include-dirs: Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include' directory does not exist. Warning: 'include-dirs: Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include\server' directory does not exist. Warning: 'extra-lib-dirs: Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include' directory does not exist. Warning: 'extra-lib-dirs: Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include\server' directory does not exist. }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/177#comment:6 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects