profiling in Cabal in 6.4.1-aug-1

[Simon Marlow]

On 04 August 2005 12:54, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:

> I have `made'  ghc-6.4.1.20050801
> 
> by its binary, on Linux Debian, and tested on DoCon and Dumatel
> application.
> The first `make' crashed (I do not know, maybe, indeed, a hardware
> fail). The second (by new) succeeded.
> 
> It looks all right -- except `making' with profiling.
> 
> Without profiling, it `makes' and installs.
> For profiling,  dm.cabal  adds
>                           -prof -auto-all -hisuf p_hi -osuf p_o
> to its options.
> The commands
>     runhaskell Setup configure --ghc --prefix=$dmSource/inst
>     runhaskell Setup build
> 
> seem to work all right. Then,   runhaskell Setup install --user
> reports
> 
>   Installing: /home/mechvel/dm/1.03/dm/source/inst/lib/dumatel-1.3 &
>               /home/mechvel/dm/1.03/dm/source/inst/bin dumatel-1.3...
>   Error: Could not find module: Dumatel with any suffix: ["hi"]
> 
> And the directory  $dmSource/dist/build/  contains
>                                           Dumatel.p_hi, Dumatel.p_o
> among its files.

Newer versions of Cabal have support for profiling.  I suggest you
upgrade Cabal independently: there's a downloadable pre-release version
available from http://www.haskell.org/cabal/.

Cheers,
	Simon