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<p>Hello</p>
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<p>I'm new to Cabal, and I'm trying to Cabalize my library HsShellScript, with help by Howard Golden. I'm using the Simple Build Infrastructure.</p>
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<p>1. I'm irritated by the fact, that calling the Cabal with "runhaskell configure; runhaskell build; runhaskell install" is _not_ sufficent in many cases. You need additional arguments for "runhaskell configure", and "runhaskell build" can't build everything, you need other actions in many cases. I need haddock, and it can't be specified in the .cabal file, or run by "runhaskell build".</p>
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<p>I'm about to include this Makefile:</p>
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<p>-----snip------</p>
<p>default :: build</p>
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<p>configure ::</p>
<p> runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --ghc --prefix=/tmp</p>
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<p>build :: </p>
<p> runhaskell Setup.lhs build</p>
<p> runhaskell Setup.lhs haddock</p>
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<p>install ::</p>
<p> runhaskell Setup.lhs install</p>
<p>-----snip------</p>
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<p>This would make the installation a matter of "make configure; make; make install".</p>
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<p>Is this the way it should be done?</p>
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<p>2. I have some HTML pages of additional documentation, which need to be installed, and need to be included in the (sdist) generated distribution package.</p>
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<p>I have no clue how this should be done.</p>
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<p>Cheers, Volker</p>
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