#3115: mark ghc.cabal so that unsuspecting newbies don't try to edit it
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Reporter: nr | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: Build System
Version: 6.11 | Severity: minor
Keywords: | Testcase:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
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Please change the configure/build system so that (a) ghc.cabal is not
writable and (b) it contains a comment at the top saying that people
wishing to add source files to the compiler should extend file
ghc.cabal.in and re-run ../configure; they should ''not'' edit ghc.cabal
directly.
I know of two people who have fallen into this pit; let's not have any
more.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3115>
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