Building extra-libs using Cabal

[Duncan Coutts]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 00:07 +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:34:08AM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:19:42AM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> > > The relevant packages are:
> > > 
> > > Haddock errors: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/894
> > > 	network 
> > > 	xhtml 
> > > 	opengl 
> > > 	openal 
> > > 	alut
> > 
> > xhtml is fixed.  The others (plus GLUT, I think) are a Cabal problem.
> 
> To elaborate, when cpphs is called from the haddock phase, it's not
> passed the cpp arguments that are used by build.  I think Cabal needs
> a cpp-options field, for cpp options needed for Haskell source.  They're
> currently in cc-options or compiler-specific option fields, but they
> don't really belong there.

Yes, Lennart Kolmodin was just investigating this problem for Gentoo and
came to a similar conclusion.

We can't pass all the cc-options to hsc2hs or cpphs, we'd have to filter
them which seems a bit ugly. The other ugly option is to add these flags
to ghc-options.

Anyone got a suggestion for what to do in the short term (ie the 1 week
'til the ghc & cabal release) ?

Duncan