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Distribution.Make

Portability | portable
Maintainer | cabal-devel@haskell.org

Description

This is an alternative build system that delegates everything to the `make` program. All the commands just end up calling `make` with appropriate arguments. The intention was to allow preexisting packages that used makefiles to be wrapped into Cabal packages. In practice essentially all such packages were converted over to the "Simple" build system instead. Consequently this module is not used much and it certainly only sees cursory maintenance and no testing. Perhaps at some point we should stop pretending that it works.

Uses the parsed command-line from Distribution.Setup in order to build Haskell tools using a backend build system based on make. Obviously we assume that there is a configure script, and that after the ConfigCmd has been run, there is a Makefile. Further assumptions:

ConfigCmd
  We assume the configure script accepts `--with-hc`, `--with-hc-pkg`, `--prefix`, `--bindir`, `--libdir`, `--libexecdir`, `--datadir`.
BuildCmd
  We assume that the default Makefile target will build everything.
InstallCmd
  We assume there is an `install` target. Note that we assume that this does *not* register the package!
CopyCmd
  We assume there is a `copy` target, and a variable `$(destdir)`. The `copy` target should probably just invoke `make install` recursively (e.g. `$(MAKE) install prefix=$(destdir)/$(prefix) bindir=$(destdir)/$(bindir)`. The reason we can't invoke `make install` directly here is that we don't know the value of `$(prefix)`.
SDistCmd
  We assume there is a `dist` target.
RegisterCmd
  We assume there is a `register` target and a variable `$(user)`.
UnregisterCmd
  We assume there is an `unregister` target.
HaddockCmd
  We assume there is a `docs` or `doc` target.

Synopsis

module Distribution.Package

data License

= GPL
| LGPL
| BSD3
| BSD4
| PublicDomain
| AllRightsReserved
| OtherLicense
| UnknownLicense String

Version (Version, versionBranch, versionTags)
defaultMain :: IO ()
defaultMainArgs :: [String] -> IO ()
defaultMainNoRead :: PackageDescription -> IO ()

Documentation
module Distribution.Package

data License | Source

This datatype indicates the license under which your package is released. It is also wise to add your license to each source file using the license-file field. The `AllRightsReserved` constructor is not actually a license, but states that you are not giving anyone else a license to use or distribute your work. The comments below are general guidelines. Please read the licenses themselves and consult a lawyer if you are unsure of your rights to release the software.

Constructors

GPL | GNU Public License. Source code must accompany alterations.
LGPL | Lesser GPL, Less restrictive than GPL, useful for libraries.
BSD3 | 3-clause BSD license, newer, no advertising clause. Very free license.
BSD4 | 4-clause BSD license, older, with advertising clause.
PublicDomain | Holder makes no claim to ownership, least restrictive license.
AllRightsReserved | No rights are granted to others. Undistributable. Most restrictive.
OtherLicense | Some other license.
UnknownLicense String | Not a recognised license. Allows us to deal with future extensions more gracefully.

Instances

Eq License
Read License
Show License
Text License

Version (Version, versionBranch, versionTags)

defaultMain :: IO () | Source

defaultMainArgs :: [String] -> IO () | Source

defaultMainNoRead :: PackageDescription -> IO () | Source

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