[Haskell-cafe] Specifying cabal sandbox flag for local package

[Vlatko Basic]

Hi Anthony,

I can install it manually, I'm just trying to find out if a solution exist to 
tell cabal to use a flag for compiling an external package, i.e. to treat it as 
if there is no flag.

Something like "add-source-flags" would do. :-)


I also tried 'ghc-options: -DFLAG' in project's cabal file, but no luck.


vlatko

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Specifying cabal sandbox flag for local package
From: Anthony Cowley <acowley at seas.upenn.edu>
To: vlatko.basic at gmail.com
Cc: haskell-cafe <haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
Date: 03.07.2014 19:24

> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Vlatko Basic <vlatko.basic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Cafe,
>>
>> I have a local forked package and added its path to sandboxed project with
>>   'cabal sandbox add-source PATH'.
>>
>> However, to build that package I have to specify a flag to 'cabal install'.
>> In other words I can't install it by
>>    'cabal install --only-dependencies',
>> but separately with
>>    'cabal install PACKAGE -fFLAG'.
>>
>> Is there a way to tell cabal sandbox (or in project.cabal) to always use
>> some flag(s) for compiling a (particular) package in local path?
>
> A way of side stepping this problem is to setup a sandbox in the
> forked project directory with "cabal sandbox init
> --sandbox=../MyProject/.cabal-sandbox", then you can run "cabal
> install --flags" in the forked project directory, and it will install
> to the sandbox for your downstream project.
>
> Anthony
>