Cabal help please

[Simon Marlow]

On 16 June 2005 18:12, Adrian Hey wrote:

> On Thursday 16 Jun 2005 4:48 pm, Isaac Jones wrote:
>> "Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> writes:
>>> On 16 June 2005 15:36, Adrian Hey wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm just getting around to tidying up the AVL library and releasing
>>>> a new version and, of course thinking about Cabalising it too. But
>>>> I'm finding difficult to figure out how to do this from the
>>>> Cabal docs and Distribution library haddock.
>>>> 
>>>> Anyway, what I want to do is..
>>>>  Run cpphs on all the sources
>>>>  Compile the results using -split-objs (for ghc at least).
>>> 
>>> Cabal doesn't support -split-objs at the moment.  To do this you'll
>>> need to write your own Makefile and hook it up to Cabal (possible,
>>> but a bit fiddly I believe).
>> 
>> Can someone outline what cabal needs to do to support this?
> 
> I can't answer your question, but I can say using split objs is a
> bit weird if you're not familiar with how ghc does it (dunno
> if you are or not). The split objects don't seem to go in the
> same directory as the main object (in this case a dummy object)
> would go (according to hierarchical name). Instead they seem to
> get placed in the root object directory $(OBJDIR).

-split-objs is a bit weird, and I don't think it currently works with
--make.  So I think the best route is for us to fix GHC first, and then
let you know what the (hopefully minimal) changes to Cabal should be.

Cheers,
	Simon