#200: Allow more convenient use of ghc profiling options -auto and -auto-all ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.6 Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): So we want something like `--enable/disable-profiling-this-package`, though with a less silly name. It would modify the meaning of `--enable-library-profiling` and `--enable-executable-profiling` to add `-auto-all`. For libs the default would be disabled and for exes the default would be enabled. Hmm, if our defaults our different then we'd need different enable/disable flags for libs vs exes. I agree with bos and Ian that we can basically ignore `-auto` and `-caf- all`. On the other hand I think that if we use `-auto-all` by default for executables then we do need a way to let people not do that for the rare cases (though we don't need to support those cases specifically). The easy way to do that is just to have a corresponding disable flag. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/200#comment:7 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects