Ticket #300 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 6 months ago

Last modified 5 months ago

Cabal 1.2.x silently ignores ghc-prof-options

Reported by: bos Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Cabal library Version: 1.2.3.0
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Difficulty: normal
GHC Version: 6.8.2 Platform:

Description

This one caught me out for a while. Cabal 1.2 releases accept the ghc-prof-options property, but silently ignore it. Eep!

The bug is fixed in 1.4, but in the unlikely event of another GHC 6.8 release, it would be nice to have it fixed in the 1.2 line too. This is mostly an FYI.

Attachments

ghcProfOptions.dpatch (0.6 kB) - added by duncan on 06/20/08 02:21:01.

Change History

06/20/08 02:20:21 changed by duncan

It was being dropped in unionBuildInfo. I've back-ported the fix from 1.4 to the 1.2 branch in case anyone ever makes another release from that branch.

06/20/08 02:21:01 changed by duncan

  • attachment ghcProfOptions.dpatch added.

07/10/08 08:59:25 changed by duncan

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

I don't think we'll be making another release on the Cabal-1.2 branch. There is not going to be another ghc-6.8.x release and Cabal-1.4 seems to be working fine so that's the release to use to get the fix.