On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Volker Wysk
Hello
I'm new to Cabal, and I'm trying to Cabalize my library HsShellScript, with help by Howard Golden. I'm using the Simple Build Infrastructure.
1. I'm irritated by the fact, that calling the Cabal with "runhaskell configure; runhaskell build; runhaskell install" is _not_ sufficent in many cases. You need additional arguments for "runhaskell configure", and "runhaskell build" can't build everything, you need other actions in many cases. I need haddock, and it can't be specified in the .cabal file, or run by "runhaskell build".
End users installing packages by hand largely use the cabal-install[1] command-line tool, which can be configured to auto-generate documentation for installed packages and put them in a centralized location. It may even do this by default. [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall
2. I have some HTML pages of additional documentation, which need to be installed, and need to be included in the (sdist) generated distribution package.
I have no clue how this should be done.
In the package description, you should be able to add an "Extra-Source-Files" section, see: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/users-guide/authors.ht... That will get them into the source tarball. I'm not sure what else you need to do to get them installed with the package - there is also a "data-files" filed for files that are needed at run-time.
Cheers, Volker
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