[Haskell-cafe] CABAL: conditional executable?

[Magnus Therning]

On 3/4/08, Thomas Schilling <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 4 mar 2008, at 11.37, Magnus Therning wrote:
>
> > On 3/4/08, Thomas Schilling <nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > executable foo
> >    main-is: bla
> >    if !os(windows):
> >      buildable: false
> >
> > Unfortunately this gives rather unhelpful error messages when used
> > with flags, but it works well enough for now.
> >
> > / Thomas
> >
> > Hmmm, I don't seem to get this to work the way I want it.  I get a
> > "Parse of field 'buildable' failed:" which means configure failed
> > and then I can't proceed to build the second executable, bar, in
> > the same package.
>
>
> Oh, right.  That's a bug in Cabal 1.2 (fixed in HEAD).  Use:
>
>    buildable: False


OK, that solved that problem, now onto the next.  Rather surprisingly to me,
buildability has an impact on what's included in the source tar-ball created
with "sdist".  What's the reason for that behaviour?

/M
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