On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Chris Casinghino
Hi all,
I have a cabal package which includes some C code. In the library description I have the two fields:
include-dirs: contrib/libpuz/include includes: contrib/libpuz/include/puz.h
But the file contrib/libpuz/include/puz.h is missing from the tarball generated by running "cabal sdist". There are C sources (mentioned using a "c-sources" line) which depend on this header.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or the desired behavior. What is the recommended way to get this file into the sdist tarball? For now, I've added the header to the "extra-source-files" field. This works fine.
cabal --version reports:
cabal-install version 0.6.2 using version 1.6.0.3 of the Cabal library
Thanks for your help!
--Chris Casinghino
Perhaps http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/users-guide/authors.ht... helps? "install-includes: filename list A list of header files from this package to be installed into $libdir/includes when the package is installed. Files listed in install-includes: should be found in relative to the top of the source tree or relative to one of the directories listed in include-dirs. install-includes is typically used to name header files that contain prototypes for foreign imports used in Haskell code in this package, for which the C implementations are also provided with the package. Note that to include them when compiling the package itself, they need to be listed in the includes: field as well." -- gwern