Sven Panne wrote:
Is there a way to build examples in a Haskell package with Cabal without actually running them? "cabal test" and "cabal benchmark" don't really do what I want, I just want to check if e.g. all GLUT examples in https://github.com/haskell-opengl/GLUT/tree/master/examples still build after some API changes. Another requirement would be parallel builds, I want to actually use the 32 cores I have under my desk. ;-) Currently I use a recursive "make" infrastructure (https://github.com/haskell-opengl/GLUT/blob/master/examples/Makefile), which works OK, but it is quite a hack, is partly incorrect and, well, needs "make".
I usually declare an "Executable" for each example and add a flag "buildExamples" that controls whether the examples are built or not. Here an example .cabal file. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/threepenny-gui-0.3.0.0/threepenny-gui.cab... Best regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com