On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 15:39 +0100, Alistair Bayley wrote: > > I never thought about that. I've been using Setup.hs with "#!/usr/bin/env > > runhaskell" and never had any problems. > > > > I guess the only thing that would be gained by using Setup.lhs is the > > ability to compile the setup program. Is that something that's commonly > > done? > > That's what I do. My normal install procedure is: > ghc --make setup > setup configure > setup build > setup install
Though of course these days we can just: cabal install It compiles Setup.(l)hs if necessary or for build types other than Custom it can just do it directly without going via the Setup script. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
