so you get
$ runghc Setup.hs configure
Setup.hs: Multiple description files found. Please use only one of :
["HaXml.cabal","HaXml-darcs.cabal"]
is there a way to specify which cabal file should be used, or do you just
have to move a file out out the way with eg
mv HaXml.cabal HaXml.cabal.tmp ?
Understanding this better is important to me because I am installing a
number of packages on 6.7, and am reluctant to send a patch that breaks
backwards compabitility with earlier versions.
It seems to me that if there is a way to specify the cabal file, you're a
step closer to having something DWIM that works for either 6.6 or 6.7, as
Claus wishlists elsewhere in this thread.
thomas.
Malcolm Wallace
When you build a package, Cabal passess the -hide-all-packages option to GHC, which prevents the package from using any installed packages other than the ones explicitly listed in the Build-Depends: field.
For now, we just edit .cabal files when transporting code between GHC versions...
Just for information, the HaXml darcs repo has recently adopted the solution of containing two .cabal files, one for ghc-6.6.x, and the other for the split-base packages (>=ghc-6.7). The only difference is the build-depends line, which is now as follows: build-depends: base, haskell98, polyparse, pretty, fps But if you have collected the earlier release HaXml-1.13.2 from hackage, then you can omit both 'polyparse' and 'fps' dependencies. ('fps' will shortly be changing to 'bytestring' in any case...) Regards, Malcolm _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe --- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.