Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:37:54PM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: (snip)
* "runghc6 Setup.hs sdist" without configuring tells me to run "setup configure", but wouldn't that restrict me to a particular compiler? (the same applies to clean, although it's not as critical there).
The results of configure aren't used by sdist, though they are passed (I don't know why). Seems to be useless but harmless.
Even if configure doesn't affect sdist in any way, it would still be much nicer not to require it is run IMO.
The same thing is true of ./setup clean. That's ticket 12: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/trac/trac.cgi/ticket/12
Come to think of it, this probably means you need to have the build-deps etc satisfied to make a source distribution, which could be irritating.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll make sure there are bug reports for each of the things you brought up. peace, isaac