ghc-pkg --add-package is broken

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak@knm.org.pl
7 Apr 2001 17:21:08 GMT


7 Apr 2001 17:15:35 GMT, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> pisze:

> Substitution of [] for empty fields is done while parsing the package
> config by ghc. It should be either done by ghc-pkg, or ghc-pkg should
> omit these fields. But ghc-pkg --add-package reports parse error when
> some fields are missing (e.g. source_dirs).

Moreover, ghc-pkg doesn't write the final newline in package.conf,
which causes ghc to fail.

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