[Haskell-cafe] Hackage suggestion: Gather the list of the licenses of all dependencies of a package

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sat Dec 15 16:14:59 CET 2012


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Petr P <petr.mvd at gmail.com> wrote:

> So if I put cpphs into build-tools and I don't have it installed, the
> build will fail? Is this a desired behavior, or a bug?
>

Shortcoming of cabal; it only "knows about" libraries because it is really
just a front-end for ghc-pkg, so can't really figure dependencies involving
only executables and not libraries.  The same thing comes up with happy,
alex, and gtk2hsc2hs.

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