Cabal bug, times two and a half

[Simon Marlow]

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Simon Marlow wrote:
>> Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>>> I tried reporting a Cabal bug via Trac, but I can't log in as 
>>> guest/haskell.  Alas.
>>
>> The password is "haskell'" (note the final apostrophe).
> 
> D'oh!  Alas, the tick is practically invisible to me on the web page, 
> and I had my prescription for glasses checked recently :-)  I'll 
> remember it's there, though.
> 
>> Not adding -auto-all is the right default; the intended usage is for 
>> building a profiled version of the library so that a user can profile 
>> their own application against it, not to profile the library itself.
> 
> Fair enough.  Do library maintainers normally use Cabal to do routine 
> builds and rebuilds of their own libraries?  If so, do people simply 
> keep locally modified .cabal files around for this kind of thing?
> 
> By the way, when I spent a bit more time poking around at this, I found 
> that even adding -auto-all left me with empty cost centres in profile 
> output for libraries (but not the main app) on x86_64, but everything 
> was fine on i386.  I'm unfamiliar enough with the territory that I don't 
> know quite what to do with this piece of information.  What would be 
> useful for you to know if I were to file a bug?

I can't imagine why this might happen... could you check with -v that the 
-auto-all flag is being passed to ghc as expected?  If it is, then please file a 
GHC bug at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc.  Otherwise it may be a Cabal 
bug, I guess.  You definitely did 'setup configure' again, right?

Cheers,
	Simon