On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 05:34:33AM +0000, Levent Erkok wrote: > I'm suffering from the issue reported in here: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/656. In brief, cabal > had a bug that prevented it from running haddock successfully if a > package contained both a library and an executable that depended on > it. The good news is that the bug has been fixed, about 5 months ago > in fact. Unfortunately, it looks like there hasn't been an official > cabal-install release since. In any case, the version of cabal that > hackage uses certainly does not have this fix included, hence packages > that contain library+executable combos in the newer style fail to > build on the hackage site. > > Is there a known workaround to this problem, short of dropping the > "self" dependency in the cabal file? Would it be too much to ask if > hackage can upgrade it's cabal? Would that break further things?
Using a development version of cabal-install would run the risk of breaking other packages. A release that contains this fix would be better. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
