Cabal compiling with profiling

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:24:56PM -0700, Isaac Jones wrote:
> I have a patch from Arthur Baars to build profiling libraries for GHC.
> I'm wondering how people think it should be integrated?  Should we
> have a --prof option that JUST builds profiling libraries, or which
> builds both non profiling and profiling?  I know that the makefile
> system has some "ways" that I think are related to profiling.  Should
> we have something more flexible, or is --prof or --with-prof flexible
> enough?

It would be nice to allow binary package distributors to be able to
create foo and foo-prof packages for large libraries easily, rather than
having to bundle everything in one or split files out "by hand". This is
more important as more variants are supported, obviously.


Thanks
Ian