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

[Henk-Jan van Tuyl]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:14:59 +0100, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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.
>

A work-around for this would be to add a dummy library to program-only  
packages.

Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


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