On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:39:18AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
No they won't: If Setup.hs builds then it's installed, and besides, we don't need it any more if we've already built Setup. So there's no point in Setup.hs checking it's installed (which is the effect of adding a dep in the .cabal file, which I assume is what you meant).
I see your point, but Cabal passes -package base etc, so even if FilePath is installed, its not visible to a Cabal compiled program by default.
If by Cabal you mean "./Setup build" then yes, it passes -package base etc for the build-deps, but if I understand correctly you are talking about /compiling/ Setup. You are right that cabal-setup would need to pass -package foo, but that's just something we do and users don't need to worry about. Thanks Ian