On 10/12/06, Seth Gordon
(it was easier to do that then to learn enough about Cabal to get HSQL recompiled with profiling),
Hmm...That should just require: runghc Setup.hs configure -p Doing that tells cabal to build both the normal library and profiling enabled copy so that when you run: runghc Setup.hs build runghc Setup.hs install Both versions (normal and profiled) should be installed side by side. If that didn't work for you, maybe there is some other problem. I actually compiled HSQL from scratch + HSQL-MySQL just two days ago without a problem using the above commands. Perhaps you need to add a line in the .cabal file to tell ghc which profiling options to use. Something like: ghc-prof-options: -caf-all On a side note, cabal is fairly simple still (from a user point of view), meaning it's easy to learn 80% of the functionality (or maybe I mean learn how to do 80% of what you need). I think what we lack (or what the cabal userguide lacks) is a section on concrete examples taking you from cabalizing a HelloWorld project on up through the work needed to do fancy cross platform stuff. I know there are some examples, but something isn't quite right yet to make it accessible enough for beginners. And I'm not sure what, I just have some fuzzy ideas on what might make it better :) For me once I got comfortable with cabal I found that darcs + cabal makes a mean team. You can quickly pull together different libraries and get some serious hacking done. Much praise to both. I can't wait till cabal-install/hackage is mainstream. HTH, Jason