#217: Main modules in .hsc files are not included in sdist
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Reporter: gwern | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: reopened
Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.4
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: normal
Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform:
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Comment (by duncan):
Fixed but not yet documented.
{{{
Thu Jan 31 11:49:09 GMT 2008 Duncan Coutts
* Find original sources for main-is when creating sdist
Also add a package sanity check that main-is must specify a .hs or .lhs
file.
So the bahaviour is now that main-is specifies the main source file,
even if
that is generated by a pre-processor. This isn't really a change in
behaviour
since previously if you specified main-is: main.hsc then it would try to
pass the .hsc file to ghc dirctly which would not work. For ticket #14
things
were fixed to that it would look for main.hsc if you used main-is:
main.hs an
that file did not exist directy. This completes the other half, of
actually
being able to make a src distribution. So this should fix bug #217.
Note that this still needs some work, we do not run platform-independent
preprocessors and put the result into the tarball for main-is files.
Generally, main-is has been the second class citizen compared to normal
modules. We should try and refactor so both use the same code paths.
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Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/217#comment:11
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