patch applied (packages/array): FIX BUILD: build-depends should be inside library { ... }

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Fri Dec 14 17:57:36 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 12:07 +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> >   * FIX BUILD: build-depends should be inside library { ... }
> 
> Apologies for breaking the ghc build on this.
> 
> But is there a good rationale for this restriction?  It seems obvious to
> me that, in a cabal file with a library{} and possibly many executable{}
> stanzas, one may wish to common-up some of those fields that appear
> frequently, rather than duplicate them in each stanza.

I see no obvious problem with such an extension.

Duncan



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