On 4 mar 2008, at 11.37, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On 3/4/08, Thomas Schilling <nominolo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> executable foo
> main-is: bla
> if !os(windows):
> buildable: false
>
> Unfortunately this gives rather unhelpful error messages when used
> with flags, but it works well enough for now.
>
> / Thomas
>
> Hmmm, I don't seem to get this to work the way I want it. I get a
> "Parse of field 'buildable' failed:" which means configure failed
> and then I can't proceed to build the second executable, bar, in
> the same package.
Oh, right. That's a bug in Cabal 1.2 (fixed in HEAD). Use:
buildable: False
OK, that solved that problem, now onto the next. Rather surprisingly to me, buildability has an impact on what's included in the source tar-ball created with "sdist". What's the reason for that behaviour?