[gobolinux-devel] Enhance Compile to support Haskell Cabal builds

[Kevin Quick]

On 12 Apr 2008, at 1:08 AM, Michael Homer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Kevin Quick <quick at sparq.org> wrote:
>>
> It's in the %decls (Perl) hash, typed to an array - cabal_variables
> and runhaskell should be listed there too.

They are.

> Only the entries tied to a
> particular set of recipe types are listed in $declarations, so things
> like sandbox_options and environment=() that can be used anywhere
> don't get a mention.

Ok... just checking.

> Actually, what is cabal_variables intended for? It's merged with
> --prefix=, so should it really be cabal_options or is it used for
> variables in the same way as make_variables? It doesn't really make
> any difference to how they're entered or parsed, but we should make
> sure the name is right before we're committed to preserving
> compatibility with it. The use flag merging should happen with
> whatever the default, most common way of adding configuration options
> is.

I was boilerplating from other recipes.  I agree though,  
cabal_options is more apropo.  Do you want another patch, or do you  
just want to do this yourself?

-KQ