[Haskell-cafe] Adding gcc type options with cabal (e.g. -mno-cygwin)

Berlin Brown berlin.brown at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 00:10:08 EST 2008


On Feb 4, 2008 5:55 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:18 -0500, bbrown wrote:
> > Is there a way to pass misc options to the cabal, ghc process.
> >
> > I tried the following:
> >
> > extra-libraries:         sqlite3
> > extra-lib-dirs:          C:\cygwin\lib
> > include-dirs:            C:\cygwin\usr\include
> > ghc-options:             -mno-cygwin
> >
> > runhaskell Setup.lhs build --ghc-options=-mno-cygwin -v
> >
> > No dice, doesn't show up.
>
> Really? That's odd, works for me:
>
> $ runhaskell Setup.lhs build --ghc-options=-mno-cygwin -v
> ...
> [snip]
> ...
> ghc-6.8.2: unrecognised flags: -mno-cygwin
> Usage: For basic information, try the `--help' option.
>
> Also works with runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --ghc-options=-mno-cygwin
>
> Works in the sense that it passes the flag through to ghc. Of course I'm
> on unix and ghc does not recognise that flag.
>
> What version of Cabal are you using?
>
> Duncan
>
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It looked like it passed the option, but didn't resolve the issue.
Anyone seen that before?  See error in previous post.

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