Re: suggestion for a small extension to configurations

2007-11-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 12:17 +, Ross Paterson wrote: > Your examples use base, for which there will be only one version in a GHC > installation. But there might be multiple versions of other packages, > so testing on them is a bit more complicated. > > How does a repackager control the select

[Hackage] #170: pkg-config uses a more general version scheme

2007-11-05 Thread Hackage
#170: pkg-config uses a more general version scheme -+-- Reporter: duncan |Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: low |Milestone: Component: Cabal | Vers

Re: cabal install

2007-11-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:46 +0100, Bjorn Bringert wrote: > Crap, so cabal-install is totally broken with 6.8.1. Yep :-( > cabal-install is trying to find ld even before it has started to > install a package. We could cd to $tmpdir/something, and run > findCompiler there. Nasty hack workaround th

Re: suggestion for a small extension to configurations

2007-11-05 Thread Ross Paterson
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:15:14PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Here's my suggestion: > > library > build-depends: base > if package(base >= 3) > build-depends: pretty, directory, etc > > and it is syntactic sugar for: > > flag _unnamed1 > > library > build-depends: base > if flag(

Re: cabal install

2007-11-05 Thread Bjorn Bringert
On Nov 5, 2007, at 0:27 , Duncan Coutts wrote: On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:22 +0100, Bjorn Bringert wrote: On Nov 4, 2007, at 17:10 , Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote: it works fine for me, but I only have GHC 6.6.1 at the moment. What platform are you on? It'll be using Cabal-1.2.2.0 I'm not s