#89: Sharing of object files between executable builds? ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: bjorn@… | Owner: blackh Type: enhancement | Status: assigned Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.8 Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Ghcversion: 6.4.2 Platform: Linux | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by AnttiJuhaniKaijanaho): Replying to [comment:24 duncan]:

Replying to [comment:23 AnttiJuhaniKaijanaho]: I'm concerned that cabal makes simple things more complicated than they need to be.

Just to note, this is not a model we ever intend to support in the "Simple" build system. Build systems should be purely functional.

I don't see how sharing build results would break pure functionality.

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... Heh. Should I be opening a separate ticket? :)

Probably. A common section is not a bad thing. Note that this would not give any sharing of build results. It's just a shortcut to putting the same options in each section.

Opened as #630. (I reiterate: not sharing of build results is ugly. There is a passable argument against it in the genreal case, but in simple cases its lack just gives me another reason to NOT use Cabal when I can get away with it.) -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/89#comment:25> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects