Cabal developers, Joachim Breitner <[email protected]> writes:
> Am Sonntag, den 16.08.2009, 17:47 +0100 schrieb Neil Mitchell: >> > trying to build hlint does not work on some architectures (at least >> > alpha, s390, mips) where no threaded RTS is available. An example build >> > log is available at >> > http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=alpha&pkg=hlint&ver=1.6.4-1 >> > >> > This is caused by >> > ghc-options: -fno-warn-overlapping-patterns -threaded >> > in your hlint.cabal file. >> > [..] >> > If not, would it be possible to make this option dependent >> > on the availability of a threaded RTS (either by direct support in cabal >> > for checking it, similar to os(..) checks, or by passing a "-fthreaded" >> > flag to setup configure)? >> >> Yes, of course. What suits you? Any os checks would go wrong, so an >> -fnothreaded flag seems sensible? I'd still like threading to be the >> default. > > that would be a start, thanks. > > Of course I’d prefer if cabal had automatic support for this. I guess is > does not ATM, so for now the flag is ok, and I’m hereby telling the > Cabal people about this :-) Did a trac ticket ever get created for this? This affects Darcs 2.3.0, so I'm about to add an -f-threaded to darcs.cabal for 2.4.0, because I don't know how to tell Cabal "use -threaded iff you can". _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
