[Haskell-cafe] cabal sdist and auto-generated modules

[Marios Titas]

Also, isn't this a bad practice? I think setup.hs should not modify
the source tree in any way, it should only create/modify files in the
dist/ directory.

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Marios Titas <redneb8888 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, including an empty (or dummy) file causes cabal build to fail
> because it apparently prefers that file over the generated one in the
> autogen directory.
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
> <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 08/31/2014 03:11 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08/31/2014 05:45 AM, Marios Titas wrote:
>>>>> I am trying to run cabal sdist on a package where one of exposed
>>>>> modules does not exists because it is automatically generated by
>>>>> setup.hs. cabal refuses to do that because it cannot find the file
>>>>> corresponding to that module. Is there a solution to that problem? The
>>>>> package builds just fine.
>>>>
>>>> Does touch missingmodule.hs not do it for you?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sounds like a bad idea, it would mean instead of generating the module it
>>> would take the empty file as the generated module and probably fail to
>>> build?
>>>
>>
>> Presumably setup.hs would take care to delete the ‘fake’ file with the
>> actual generated file at build time.
>>
>> --
>> Mateusz K.
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