Hi, Am Samstag, den 04.10.2014, 10:08 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > > Why exactly is your proposed changes to hgettext required? > > hgettext ships some cabal functions. Most notably gettextDefaultMain, > which replaces the original defaultMain (from cabal) and installs > the .po files and other stuff that belongs to gettext. > > If that function is compiled against the old GHC version, running cabal > install on a package that uses this function result in errors, because > of invalid command line flags. I guess this is because Setup.hs has > changed it's CLI in the newer version, but cabal-install expects this > new CLI. (Running runghc Setup.hs <command> works fine, since the newer > cabal-install isn't involved) > > This means most packages, that ship functions that are to be used in > Setup.hs, should be compiled against the same version as cabal-install. > To ensure compatibility. nasty. But hopefully not many packages provide code to be used from Setup.lhs. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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