[Hackage] #328: cabal-install passing --distpref to Setup.hs compiled with older Cabal lib

19 Aug 2008

      #328: cabal-install passing --distpref to Setup.hs compiled with older Cabal lib
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  Reporter:  duncan              |        Owner:       
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new  
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:       
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  HEAD 
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:       
Difficulty:  normal              |   Ghcversion:  6.8.2
  Platform:                      |  
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 Recently, while developing a package here in the group, we changed the
 build-type from "Simple" to "Custom" to allow for "cabal test". The
 Setup.hs simply calls defaultMainWithHooks with simpleUserHooks where
 runTests has been redefined.

 The problem is that this change gives me the following error when invoking
 "cabal build" (after invoking "cabal configure"):
 {{{
 setup.exe: Unrecognised flags:
  --distpref=dist
 }}}

 runhaskell Setup.hs build works fine, though. This happens on a win64
 machine, cabal-install version 0.5.1 using version 1.4.0.1 of the library.
 On a mac there seem to be no problems, though.

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Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/328
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