On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 06:27:51PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:18 -0500, Brent Yorgey wrote: > > > ghc-options: -Wall > > > > if impl(ghc >= 6.12.1) > > ghc-options: -fno-warn-unused-do-bind > > > > I would expect the arguments -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind to be > > passed to ghc-6.12.1. However, let's see what happens: > > > ghc [..] -fno-warn-unused-do-bind -Wall Foo > > Indeed, that's clearly wrong. The order should be the same as given in > the .cabal file. > > > Any ideas? Why does this happen? How hard would it be to fix? > > Where it gets reversed will need a little investigation. First point to > check would be before and after finalisePackageDescription.
OK, I might take a look. > > And are there any workarounds in the meantime? > > Have you tried listing the fields in the other order? Yes, with the same result. So it's not as simple as something being backwards. I just had another idea for a possible workaround (even if this gets fixed I'd rather not rely on everyone building xmonad to have a sufficiently new version of cabal) which I will try once I get to school. > > Also, I'm happy to file a ticket on the bug tracker for this. > > Thanks. Will do, I mailed first to see if people agreed this was a bug. -Brent _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
