duncan.coutts: > On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 17:30 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > > >>>>> "Svein" == Svein Ove Aas <svein....@aas.no> writes: > > > > >> Preprocessing library game-tree-1.0.0.0... Building > > >> game-tree-1.0.0.0... > > >> > > >> Data/Tree/Game/Negascout.hs:31:0: Unrecognised pragma [1 of 2] > > >> Compiling Data.Tree.Game.Tree ( Data/Tree/Game/Tree.hs, > > >> dist/build/Data/Tree/Game/Tree.o ) > > >> > > >> Data/Tree/Game/Tree.hs:1:0: Failed to load interface for > > >> `Prelude': it is a member of package base-3.0.3.0, which > > >> is hidden > > >> > > Svein> What does your .cabal file look like? > > Don, mkcabal is generating .cabal files that are confusing people. > > It should generate new-style .cabal files with library or executable > sections. The ghc-options and build-depends etc need to be in the lib or > exe section. > > The files it generates are not actually broken but it leaves new users > to do the conversion from old style to new and unsurprisingly many get > that wrong. Cabal is also at fault here for not providing good > diagnostics but it would help if mkcabal used the current recommended > style. > > Note also that the list of licenses mkcabal offers is wrong. You can get > the list from the Cabal lib itself so there is no need to maintain the > list manually. > > I still think mkcabal should be integrated into cabal-install, like: > $ cabal init > or something. We could also more easily keep it up to date that way.
mkcabal is unmaintained. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
