[moving to libraries] On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 02:32:27AM -0400, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:

I am trying to use Cabal for buiding HSFFIG as a package. Among other files to install I have the special template for hsc2hs which is a C include file. If I specify it in the Includes: clause nothing happens: it is not copied anywhere during installation.

I need this file to be placed somewhere in the package instalation location, so when programs are compiled with my package could include that file.

Of course I may specify additional step in the Makefile, but it would be more consistent to do this in Cabal.

How can arbitrary files be declared parts of a package, and destination directories for them be specified?

There are several programs like this (e.g. hsc2hs, happy), but specifying destination directories would be non-portable. I think there should be a new field (data-files?) listing files to be installed where the program can find them: - for GHC under Unix, in {prefix}/share/{exeName}/ - for GHC under Windows, in the same directory as the executable ({Program Files}/{packageID}) - For Hugs, in the same directory as the Main module ({Hugs}/programs/{exeName})