#188: file extensions --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal | Version: 1.2.2.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.1 | Platform: Linux --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): Cabal currently does not have a well abstracted way of supporting different kinds of files that can be compiled to .o files. .c .m .c++ files are all different language files that can be compiled to .o files with their respective compilers. I don't think we should be trying to hack it by just pretending they're all .c files and passing different flags to ghc. They should use their own compiler directly and Cabal should be extended to cope with this more easily. This would be much easier in a rule based, make style system. That work is at the pre-prototype stage at the moment (see #15). That should make it a lot easier to give a rule for building files with given extensions. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/188#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects