On 28 April 2005 15:24, Daan Leijen wrote:
I suggest you use CPP ('gcc -E -undef -traditional -P' or 'cpphs'). This is what we use in GHC to get values into the package.conf files. e.g. in a Makefile you would write something like:
This does not work for me. For the *binary* installer for windows, I use a batch file (.bat). The user unzips the binary files (.hi & .o) in some location and runs "register.bat" which calls ghc-pkg with the .pkg files. This batch file sets the current directory (= the install directory) as an environment variable that used to be expanded in the .pkg files. Now, I need to generate those .pkg files inside the .bat file which seems a lot of extra work, if it works at all..
Ah, I see. I'll look into re-enabling this feature in 6.4.1. For the time being, maybe write a little Haskell program to transform .pkg files?
Another thing that causes me trouble is that I seem to need to list all exposed modules explicitly. For me, this means that I need to put those modules into the configure script which makes everything much more fragile. Is there a way to use a wildcard, ie. saying "expose everything in here"?
Sorry, no. I started to implement something like that, but it turned out to be a lot harder than I thought (can't remember why, exactly). Cheers, Simon