Hi, On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:34:38 +0900, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was hoping I could jot down some wishlist items for building > wxhaskell... The big thing on my list is for "cabal install wx" to > "just work". Right now, you have to > > sudo cabal install wxcore --global > cabal install wx > > which is really quite clunky, especially if you want people to be > able to cabal install stuff which depends on wx > > As you know (and the franchise folks may not be aware), our current > cabalisation is a bit of a sham; it just adds some packaging around our > configure script (which is handwritten and not even autoconf-generated!) > and our Makefile. Would anybody have the time to look into makefile.lib > and see if we can do anything about it?
I added --user option today. http://www.mail-archive.com/wxhaskell-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00337.html This is not really the solution. Because Cabal and cabal command don't pass --user option to Distribution.Make's ConfigCmd now. http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/libraries/Cabal/Distribution-Make.html And installation directory isn't $HOME/.cabal now. It causes problem when use Mac OS X application bundle. See above patch online. Does anybody have an idea to solve this problem? If we could solve this soonly, we do that before wxHaskell 0.11 release (We already late some weeks from release date. GHC 6.10.1 released three weeks ago). When we solve above two problem, we can use just "cabal install wx" command to install wxHaskell from Hackage. Best Regards, > The ideal, I guess would be to > get rid of our homegrown configure script + makefile combination > altogether. One thing we could start with is by cabalising wxdirect and > just making wxcore for that. It seems a little silly having this tool > on hackage that /only/ serves for building wxhaskell (but then maybe one > day it will be useful for working on contribs?) -- shelarcy <shelarcy hotmail.co.jp> http://page.freett.com/shelarcy/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ wxhaskell-devel mailing list wxhaskell-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-devel
