[Haskell-cafe] greencard and cabal, how to do it right?

[Lemmih]

On 12/17/06, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> > suggests that it wants "--libdir=../c_lib"
> > instead of "--libdir ../c_lib". Could this be the case? I'd like to
> > think it would parse them pretty much the same way but you can never be
> > sure...
> Hi Dougal.
> Thanks for your suggestion.
> This might be the case. But is not here.
> (I could have bet that my mail was to long to be read completely ;)
> But I didn't know how to shorten it even more.
>
> Have another look at my shell line.
> 1. it runs
>                 ./setup -v build || echo -e "\n\n ===> build failed \n\n";
> which doesn't create Greencard.hs but prints the greencard command beeing executed.
> This command line is then beeing grepped for and passed to eval to be
> executed:
>
> 2.
>         eval `./setup -v build 2>&1 | grep /usr/local/bin/greencard`
> which invokes the greencard command containing --lbidir ../c_lib which
> works fine which the final ls shows.. (Greencard.hs exists then)
>
> That's the odd thing I can't cope with at the moment..

And Greencard.hs isn't just empty?

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Cheers,
  Lemmih