patch applied (cabal): Change handling of bool command line
args to allow an unset state
Malcolm Wallace
Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Thu May 1 06:02:52 EDT 2008
> Tue Apr 29 13:11:23 PDT 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
> * Change handling of bool command line args to allow an unset state
> For bool valued flags we were always producing the command line
> string corresponding to a false flag value, even if the flag was
> not set. For example we'd always get "--disable-shared".
> It is important for cabal-install to be able to take an empty set
> of flags, override a few flags and turn the flags back into
> command line strings without getting a lot of extra defaults.
> Partly this is because we have to work with older versions of the
> Cabal library command line which does not recognise the new options.
This patch breaks the nhc98 build of Cabal. Here is the error:
$ /Users/malcolm/Haskell/nhc98/script/nhc98 -c Distribution/Simple/Command.hs
nhc98comp: The class Prelude.Functor has no instance for the type Prelude.->.
Possible sources for the problem are: 189:72-189:75
When type checking declarations at: 189:1-189:81
And the offending lines of the patch:
hunk ./Distribution/Simple/Command.hs 188
-boolOpt' :: (b -> Bool) -> (Bool -> b) -> OptFlags -> OptFlags -> MkOptDescr (a -> b) (b -> a -> a) a
-boolOpt' g s ffT ffF _sf _lf d get set = BoolOpt d ffT ffF (set.s) (g.get)
+boolOpt' :: (b -> Maybe Bool) -> (Bool -> b) -> OptFlags -> OptFlags -> MkOptDescr (a -> b) (b -> a -> a) a
+boolOpt' g s ffT ffF _sf _lf d get set = BoolOpt d ffT ffF (set.s) (g `fmap` get)
Regards,
Malcolm
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