Where to put these flags?

Mikhail Glushenkov the.dead.shall.rise at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 11:47:01 UTC 2014


Hi,

On 2 November 2014 12:26, Sven Heyll <sven.heyll at gmail.com> wrote:
> a)  extend global flags?
> b) extend only ConfigExFlags?
>     (which means users cannot cross-compile without explicitly calling
>       'configure', OTOH users can set these values in cabal config file)
> c) continue to add a set of flags to every command?
>
> My preferences: (b) > (c) > (a).

+1 for option b. Since build/test/... now call 'configure'
automatically, they will probably be extended to accept configure
flags at some point.


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