On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 20:36 +0200, Andrea Rossato wrote:
Hi,
the Hackage upload script performs some checks on the packages being uploaded. In my case, a library, I need to use the cabal generated Paths_package file to access some locale data stored in a data file directory.
This requires to include in "hs-source-dirs" "dist/build/autogen", which doesn't exist in the source tree, since it's generated by cabal in the build process (the inclusion is made necessary by a bug in Cabal-1.2 which doesn't automatically search dist/build/autogen, see [1]).
Any path in your .cabal file that uses dist/ is wrong. Sorry. The dist path can be changed by the user (--builddir) and its internal layout is not fixed.
And so Hackage complains: I needed to manually include such an empty directory in the source code archive.
Any way out?
I can't think of any other workaround for 1.2 so I think you'll have to require Cabal-1.4 for your package. Duncan