[Freebsd-haskell] Newbie question about Haskell porting

[david fries]

Nevermind. I misunderstood what ${INSTALL_SCRIPT} actually does.

On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 20:12 +0100, david fries wrote:
> Hello everybody
> 
> I'm learning how to port Haskell packages to FreeBSD. I've been reading
> the porters handbook and I've also looked at various existing Haskell
> ports in the ports tree. Their Makefiles generally have a very similar
> structure - which is a very good sign in my opinion. Part of that are
> also the targets. However, there is one thing I do not quite understand.
> 
> The do-install target usually looks like this:
> 
> do-install:
>         cd ${WRKSRC} && ${SETUP_CMD} install \
>                      && ${INSTALL_SCRIPT} register.sh
> ${PREFIX}/${SOME_LIBDIR_REL}/register.sh
> 
> My question is. Why do you run the register script here? The Cabal
> documentation
> (http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/users-guide/builders.html#setup-register)
> says that this registration is implicitly done during ./setup install.
> It seems to me that executing the register script is superfluous. Or am
> I missing something?
> 
> 
> regards
> david