<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:06 AM, harry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:voldermort@hotmail.com" target="_blank">voldermort@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">John Lato-2 wrote<br>
<div class="im">> This requested feature seems to overlap with the build-tools section,<br>
> however I don't think cabal will attempt to auto-install executables<br>
> listed<br>
> there.<br>
><br>
> I think build-depends and build-tools should be kept separate, but maybe<br>
> if<br>
> an executable listed in build-tools isn't found, cabal could look for a<br>
> package with the same name on hackage and attempt to install that first?<br>
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</div>I'd forgotten about build-tools. Does it actually do anything?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It checks that the executable is available on the current path, and that it's within the given version bounds. I think that's all it does. <br>
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