[Haskell-beginners] cabal multi-library setup

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 12:30:45PM -0800, Cristian Petrescu Prahova wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a small project consisting of a library and an application. I
> cabalized both. However, whenever I tweak the library I cabal
> install it, then move to the app directory, then reconfigure, then
> rebuild. This is annoying repetitive shell typing. Is there a way to
> configure my setup such that cabal build app automatically rebuilds
> (and reinstalls?) the library dependency? I'd like something like:
> 
> # builds the library and runs the tests
> cabal make lib
> 
> # builds the app and the library dependency, then runs the app
> cabal make app

I suspect you'll have to write a wrapper makefile in order to get
something like that.

/M

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