Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
I tried reporting a Cabal bug via Trac, but I can't log in as guest/haskell. Alas.
The password is "haskell'" (note the final apostrophe). Isaac: maybe we should use a simpler password?
The bug is that "runhaskell Setup.hs --enable-library-profiling" doesn't imply -auto-all with ghc, so the profiled library contains only manual cost centres - in other words, it never shows up in profile output.
Not adding -auto-all is the right default; the intended usage is for building a profiled version of the library so that a user can profile their own application against it, not to profile the library itself. If you want to profile the library, add "ghc-options: -auto-all" to the .cabal file. When we have configurations you'll be able to make this optional, but for now just add it by hand to .cabal (and don't forget to remove it later).
The second bug is that the only way I can find to override or add compiler flags is to edit a .cabal file by hand. This makes it scarily easy to capture unintended flags when committing changes :-(
er. what I said above :) The technology that fixes this long-term shortcoming is designed (several times!) but sadly not implemented yet. If you use the Emacs darcsum mode, it's scarily easy to avoid committing things that you don't want to. darcsum is to command-line darcs as vi is to ed. Cheers, Simon