Cabal package name patch

[Duncan Coutts]

Thanks Bertram.

Simon: is this definitely what we will need for GHC 6.6?

If so we can make Cabal pass it depending on the GHC version.

Duncan

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 07:20 +0200, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote:

> Simon's recent changes to the package system have the effect that
> cabal-built packages cannot be used. Example error (from lambdabot, using
> fps that was previously built using cabal):
> 
> scripts/BotPP.hs:20:0:
>     Failed to load interface for `Data.ByteString.Char8':
>         Bad interface file: /opt/ghc/lib/fps-0.7/ghc-6.5/Data/ByteString/Char8.hi
>             Something is amiss; requested module  fps-0.7:Data.ByteString.Char8 differs from name found in the interface file fps:Data.ByteString.Char8
> 
> The attached patch fixes this in Cabal by passing the full package name
> (including version) to the -package-name option.  I expect that it breaks
> on older ghc versions, and thus should not be applied to the official
> darcs repository.
> But I hope it's still useful for someone while the underlying issue is
> resolved. (Maybe ghc shouldn't be unhappy about this in the first place?)