On Wednesday 21 May 2003 10:04 pm, Alain Cremieux wrote:

I would like to know if there exists some kind of template / sample to create a 'configure.in' for a Haskell library ?

One approach is to start with a tried and tested configure.in and cut out the bits you don't need. Good examples to start from would be the ghc configure script (fptools/configure.in plus fptools/aclocal.m4) or the Hugs configure script (hugs98/src/unix/configure.in plus hugs98/src/unix/aclocal.m4). I think a better approach is to start with a tried and tested configure.in and keep the bits you don't need. It sounds odd to include all kinds of tests you don't need but it makes it much easier to maintain because, for the most part, you just have to copy over any updates from the master copy. I am successfully using the latter approach to develop some (hopefully reusable) library infrastructure out of the GHC infrastructure (i.e., both the configure scripts and the makefiles). Thanks to Simon Marlow's help and willingness to make some changes to the ghc scripts, this is going pretty well at the moment. I have to do a bit more tweaking of the infrastructure and some more testing before I commit all my changes but I could give you what I have so far. [I also have to tweak the ghc infrastructure to support building with nhc and with Hugs. I haven't started on that yet.] -- Alastair Reid