darcs patch: [PROOF OF CONCEPT] build readline package with libedit

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Tue Feb 19 06:31:02 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:01 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Christian Maeder wrote:
> 
> > In order to avoid several #ifdefs (maybe differently or suboptimal
> > given) in user sources (to achieve 1.) such #ifdefs (or wrappers)
> > should be part of the libraries (including the documentation for the
> > license differences)!
> 
> Can Cabal-1.2's flag capability manage such a task?

I don't think I understand the problem clearly enough to say. Perhaps
someone can try explaining it in more detail.

Duncan



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