id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty	ghcversion	platform
177	Check Include-dirs, extra-lib-dirs etc exist at configure time.	guest		"Trying to build the HDBC-PostGreSQL database driver[1] revealed some poor handling of pathames under Windows.

The package requires that the paths to postgre header and libraries files be added to the .cabal file. My initial attempt was the obvious:

{{{
include-dirs: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include, C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include\server, .
extra-lib-dirs: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include, C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.2\include\server
}}}

However, the package would not build. The include files ""pg_config.h"" and some others were not found. Using single or double quotes did not help. Finally, I moved the installation to ""C:\pgsql"" and updated the .cabal file:

{{{
include-dirs: C:\pgsql\include, C:\pgsql\include\server, .
extra-lib-dirs: C:\pgsql\lib
}}}

And the package built. It seems the spaces in the first path caused the problem.

For reference, this it the configure output on my machine:

{{{
Configuring HDBC-postgresql-1.0.1.0...
configure: Dependency base-any: using base-2.1.1
configure: Dependency mtl-any: using mtl-1.0.1
configure: Dependency HDBC>=1.0.0: using HDBC-1.0.1
configure: Dependency parsec-any: using parsec-2.0
configure: Using install prefix: C:\Program Files
configure: Binaries installed in: C:\Program Files\Haskell\bin
configure: Libraries installed in: C:\Program Files\Haskell\HDBC-postgresql-1.0.1.0\ghc-6.6.1
configure: Private binaries installed in: C:\Program Files\HDBC-postgresql-1.0.1.0
configure: Data files installed in: C:\Program Files\Common Files\HDBC-postgresql-1.0.1.0
configure: Using compiler: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\ghc.exe
configure: Compiler flavor: GHC
configure: Compiler version: 6.6.1
configure: Using package tool: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\ghc-pkg.exe
configure: Using ar found on system at: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\ar.exe
configure: Using haddock found on system at: C:\haddock\haddock-0.8\haddock.exe
configure: No pfesetup found
configure: Using ranlib found on system at: c:\MinGW\bin\ranlib.exe
configure: Using runghc found on system at: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\runghc.exe
configure: Using runhugs found on system at: C:\Program Files\WinHugs\runhugs.exe
configure: No happy found
configure: No alex found
configure: Using hsc2hs: c:\ghc\ghc-6.6.1\bin\hsc2hs.exe
configure: No c2hs found
configure: No cpphs found
configure: No greencard found
}}}

Feel free to email me at jgbailey AT gmail DOT com for more info.

[1] Version 1.0.1.0 available at http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HDBC-postgresql-1.0.1.0. HDBC is also required. I used 1.0.1, available at http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HDBC-1.0.1."	defect	new	low		Cabal library	1.2.2.0	normal				normal	6.6	Windows