[Haskell-cafe] Install a script with Cabal?

[Rogan Creswick]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Ketil Malde <ketil at malde.org> wrote:
>
> I have a small project that installs a couple of Haskell tools and a
> script that uses these.  Cabal will of course build and install the
> Haskell programs, but how can I get Cabal to install the script as
> well?  There's a host of UserHooks available¹, but it'd probably be
> better to have an example than to try to experiment with the right
> configuration.

I don't have an example handy, but I think you'll want preInts,
instHook, or postInst.  I'd probably go with postInst unless you need
data provided by instHook's type that isn't passed to preInst or
postInst.

LocalBuildInfo /probably/ has the details you need (eg: installDirTemplates).

Don't forget to invoke the default hook as part of your
re-implementation -- if you override instHook, for example, you need
to invoke the instHook that *would have* happened, or no installation
will take place.

--Rogan

>
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