Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal configure && cabal build && cabal install

On 12-11-27 04:40 AM, kudah wrote:

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:20:35 -0500 "Albert Y. C. Lai" wrote:

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When "cabal build" succeeds, it always says:

(older) "registering <name>-<version>" (newer) "In-place registering <name>-<version>"

That's what it says. But use ghc-pkg and other tests to verify that no registration whatsoever has happened.

It doesn't register in user package-db, it registers in it's own dist/package.conf.inplace. If it didn't you wouldn't be able to build an executable and a library in one package such that executable depends on the library.

That's fair. But it also means cabal configure cabal build is not equivalent to cabal configure cabal build cabal register --inplace which was the context when you said "(newer) cabal build registers inplace automatically".