Hi Gwern, Thanks for the reply. I did see this field in the documentation, but I don't want the header file to be installed on the user's computer - it's only for internal use. I need it to show up in the sdist tarball because it's used for building the package. --Chris Casinghino On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Chris Casinghino wrote:

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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