15 Dec
2012
15 Dec
'12
9:01 a.m.
2012/12/15 Brent Yorgey
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 08:13:44AM +0100, Petr P wrote:
This is strange, I thought that cpphs should be specified in "build-tools:", not in "build-depends:". <
http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#build-info...
Best regards, Petr
Presumably the reason to list it in build-depends instead of build-tools is that in the latter case cabal will not automatically install it as a dependency. But you are right that this is a strange situation, since if it is being used only as a preprocessor, semantically it ought to be listed in build-tools.
So if I put cpphs into build-tools and I don't have it installed, the build will fail? Is this a desired behavior, or a bug? Best regards, Petr