[Hackage] #865: Can't use command line options containing spaces

21 Jul 2011

      #865: Can't use command line options containing spaces
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  Reporter:  bos            |        Owner:          
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new     
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:          
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.10.1.0
  Severity:  normal         |     Keywords:          
Difficulty:  unknown        |   Ghcversion:          
  Platform:                 |  
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 I found myself wanting the other day to pass some specific RTS options to
 GHC on the command line, with those options varying depending on the
 version of GHC:

 {{{ghc-options: --with-rtsopts="-N -qg"}}}

 However, Cabal doesn't tokenize command line options, and GHC doesn't
 treat multiple {{{--with-rtsopts}}} arguments as building up a single
 string, so I found myself stuck. (I know about the "specify the options in
 a {{{.c}}} file, and that's what I did, but it's less elegant.)

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Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/865
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