#837: Compile the same package with respect to several sets of flag states ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: lemming | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.10.1.0 Severity: major | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.12.3 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Currently I have configured my cabal with --enable-library-profiling, --enable-shared, what leads to problems with the GHC-7.0.* archives that do not contain shared objects for profiling. Actually, I do not need them, but I cannot tell Cabal to omit shared objects for profiling. If I use --enable-library-profiling and --enable-shared, then all combinations of {static, dynamic} x {non-profiling, profiling} are generated. Instead of enabling two variants by each of those 'enable' options and then generating code for all possible combinations, I would find it more useful to define sets of flags and compile modules with respect to all of these flag sets. E.g. I could write something like the following to ~/.cabal/config: {{{ flagset: dyn shared: True optimization: True flagset: p shared: False profiling: True optimization: True rts-options: True flagset: dbg flags: debug optimization: True }}} For every module A this should generate A_dyn.o, A_p.o, A_dbg.o. I do not know whether this problem can be solved in Cabal alone, or whether it also needs adaption of GHC. See also: * #600 * http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5021 -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/837 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects