Including object files in Cabal packages

[C Rodrigues]

Thanks for your reply, Duncan.

>> Where should the list of object files go? I can add it as a new field
>> of BuildInfo, or make it another parameter of build.
>
> How about making a custom Setup.hs that calls the makefile to generate
> the .o files and then do something like adding them into the .a library.
> Perhaps there's some API change that we could do to make this easier.
Actually, better documentation would be very useful.  The current User'sGuide provides virtually no help on custom packages.  It took meseveral hours of digging around in the Haddock docs and inspecting thepackage configuration in ghci to discover that there's a way to get the nameof the package library file.  When I wrote my last message, I already hada custom Setup.hs that runs configure/make, and I didn't thinkCabal had a function to do that.
buildDir lbi  mkLibName (package $ localPackageDescr lbi)
> I don't think adding a field in the build info makes a lot of sense,
> since normal packages would not be able to use it.

Currently, Cabal has no interface for running compilers for otherlanguages, so only custom packages would be producing .o files.

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