On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:

Is there some command which tests a tar.gz created by 'Setup.lhs sdist' by unpacking the archive to say /tmp and compiling and documenting the sources? Hackage should recommend this tool before package upload.

There isn't. However, I do have some shell scripts which I use to the same effect. They go like this: function rh { nice runhaskell Setup "$@" --verbose; } function build { rh build "$@"; } function build_clean { rh clean && rh build "$@"; } function build_sdist { clean_configure && sdist && cd dist/ && untar *.tar.gz && cd `ls -t ./ | grep "/" | head -n 1` && clean_configure && build && hinstall; haddock && hinstall; } function clean { rh clean "$@"; } function clean_configure { clean && configure; } function configurenop { rh configure --enable-split-objs --user --prefix=$HOME/bin "$@"; } function configure { configurenop --enable-executable-profiling -p "$@"; } function haddock { rh haddock --executables "$@"; } function hinstall { rh install --user "$@"; } function sdist { rh sdist "$@"; } function haskell { ( http_proxy="" pull ) & clean_configure && (build_sdist) & } (Obviously you would either run 'haskell' or 'build_sdist' to test things out.) If you're interested in a Haskell solution, there is an open Cabal bug for this: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/274. -- gwern