[Haskell-cafe] cabal build command and package versions

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 08:23 +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 13:53 -0500, Nicolas Frisby wrote:
> | > I have a question about cabal's behavior for the build command. When
> | > using the build command on a cabalized project, any version changes
> | > for installed packages go unnoticed - the necessary modules in the
> | > project are not re-compiled.
> |
> | Yes. That's a ghc bug.
> 
> Different to the one below?  Is it in Trac?

Same one, the one recently fixed.

> | Yes, it's a pretty annoying ghc bug. You'll be glad to know that it is
> | fixed in ghc-6.10:
> |
> | http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1372
> |
> | You'll notice a lot of people have commented on this one. It's tripped
> | up a lot of people.
> 
> And happily it's fixed for 6.10!

yay :-)

Duncan