[Hackage] #793: On OS X, warn about filenames that only differ in case

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Tue Jan 18 21:19:01 CET 2011


#793: On OS X, warn about filenames that only differ in case
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  Reporter:  tibbe          |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.8.0.6
  Severity:  normal         |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown        |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                 |  
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 I managed to make Cabal fail to build a project by having

 {{{
 Name:                hamt
 Version:             0.1
 License:             BSD3
 License-file:        LICENSE
 Author:              Johan Tibell
 Maintainer:          johan.tibell at gmail.com
 Category:            Data
 Build-type:          Simple
 Cabal-version:       >=1.2

 Library
   Exposed-modules: HAMT
   Other-modules: PopCount
   Build-depends: base, vector
   C-sources: popcount.c
 }}}

 The result was:

 {{{
 Building hamt-0.1...
 [1 of 2] Compiling PopCount         ( PopCount.hs, dist/build/PopCount.o )
 ld: duplicate symbol _popcount in dist/build/popcount.o and
 dist/build/PopCount.o for inferred architecture i386
 }}}

 `_popcount` is only defined in `popcount.c`. Looking in `dist/` showed
 that there was only a popcount.o there (from the C file). Renaming
 `popcount.c` to `popc.c` solved the problem.

 Cabal ought to warn in this case.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/793>
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