[GHC] #8801: Exclude extralibs from sdist

[GHC]

#8801: Exclude extralibs from sdist
------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
       Reporter:  nomeata           |             Owner:
           Type:  bug               |            Status:  new
       Priority:  normal            |         Milestone:  7.8.1
      Component:  Build System      |           Version:  7.8.1-rc1
       Keywords:                    |  Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple
   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |   Type of failure:  None/Unknown
     Difficulty:  Unknown           |         Test Case:
     Blocked By:                    |          Blocking:
Related Tickets:                    |
------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
 Am Mittwoch, den 19.02.2014, 11:13 +0100 schrieb Herbert Valerio Riedel:
 On 2014-02-18 at 23:22:13 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
 > > Am Dienstag, den 18.02.2014, 14:12 -0800 schrieb David Fox:
 > >> It seems to me that the stm library that is supposed to be built into
 > >> ghc-7.8.1 is missing.  The deb provides and conflicts with
 > >> libghc-stm-dev , but does not provide libghc-stm-dev-2.4.2.1-abcde.
 > >
 > > this seems to be the result of a possible inadvertent change in the
 GHC
 > > source tarball creation: stm had been a "extra" lib already in 7.6 and
 > > before, but was not part of the tarball.
 > >
 > > Herbert or Austin, is the sdist code not doing the right thing here?
 >
 > Afaics, 'stm' is only used as an "extra" lib by testsuite (and only for
 > one test-case) and nofib; therefore I don't think the GHC source tarball
 > is supposed to contain 'stm'...

 (This is so that he who fixes this has a bug to close, which is always
 rewarding.)

--
Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8801>
GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/>
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler