Re: building a helper binary with cabal

Sorry, this dropped of my to-reply-to list, did you get this figured out? Duncan On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 14:34 -0800, Evan Martin wrote:

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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The install phase is really two phases, copy and register. The copy phase has the CopyDest param. The default install hook just runs the copy and register phases. So you probably want to override the copy hook and not the install one.

It seems the default copy hook just runs the install hook, and that the install hook doesn't run the copy one... ?

http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/Cabal/src/Distribution-Sim... copyHook = \desc lbi _ f -> install desc lbi f, -- has correct 'copy' behavior with params

I'm sure I'm just missing something here, but my "postCopy" hook doesn't seem to be running with "install -v3".

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The hooks stuff is all really very confusing and unsatisfactory.

I agree, but I can also appreciate how difficult it must be to design, and can acknowledge that it may be the case that it really just needs to be this complicated. Having used autoconf and friends before, one thing I really prefer about this system is that there are bazillion different types which helps prevent you from accidentally doing something like putting a intermediate object in the source dir or installing while ignoring the user's prefix.