Thanks Bertram. Simon: is this definitely what we will need for GHC 6.6?
If so we can make Cabal pass it depending on the GHC version. Duncan On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 07:20 +0200, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote: > Simon's recent changes to the package system have the effect that > cabal-built packages cannot be used. Example error (from lambdabot, using > fps that was previously built using cabal): > > scripts/BotPP.hs:20:0: > Failed to load interface for `Data.ByteString.Char8': > Bad interface file: > /opt/ghc/lib/fps-0.7/ghc-6.5/Data/ByteString/Char8.hi > Something is amiss; requested module > fps-0.7:Data.ByteString.Char8 differs from name found in the interface file > fps:Data.ByteString.Char8 > > The attached patch fixes this in Cabal by passing the full package name > (including version) to the -package-name option. I expect that it breaks > on older ghc versions, and thus should not be applied to the official > darcs repository. > But I hope it's still useful for someone while the underlying issue is > resolved. (Maybe ghc shouldn't be unhappy about this in the first place?) _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org//mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
