[Haskell-cafe] cabal, Setup.lhs example

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 04:53, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks.  I tried this, but it appears cabal-install ignores the
>> Setup.hs file.  The only way I could get it to take is if I run
>> 'runhaskell Setup.hs configure' directly.  I always assumed
>> cabal-install runs Setup.hs under the hood, but apparently not.  Why
>> is this?
>
> I believe you must set
>
> Build-type: Custom
>
> in your cabal file to use user hooks in Setup.hs.  I don't fully
> understand the implications of using Custom, though.

I am successfully using hooks with the following in my .cabal file:

    Build-Type    : Simple

and my main in Setup.hs looks like this:

    main = defaultMainWithHooks $ simpleUserHooks
        { cleanHook = profileClean
        , runTests = runTestsBuild
        }

/M

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