This has annoyed me as well. Thanks for fixing. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Antoine Latter <aslat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Cabal, > > When trying to use "cabal install --enable-tests --only-dependencies" > it appears to be passing the "--enable-tests" option down to the > dependent packages during build. This isn't what I want at all - I > only want to use the "--enable-tests" flag for the purpose of building > an install plan. > > In addition, the dependency solver doesn't solve dependencies as if > dependent packages would be built with "--enable-tests", so the > "configure" step for these packages fails due to missing dependencies. > > My proposed fix is to strip the 'configTests' flag from the > ConfigFlags after building the install plan but before doing the > installation itself, because passing 'enable-tests' to the 'configure' > step during 'cabal install' doesn't make much sense to me anyway. > > An alternative fix would be to have a separate set of config flags per > source package to be installed, with --enable-tests only turned on for > the original target packages. > > A patch is attached. > > Antoine > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel >
_______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
