It's quite amazing that we've managed to pass incorrectly spelled command line
flags to Cabal for ages without ever noticing. :-)
The search path options --extra-{include,lib}-dirs are usually unnecessary,
because the build environment is set up such that gcc and ld find those headers
and libraries automatically, i.e. without needing extra flags. The bubble burst
on MacOS X, though, where the build of haskell-text-icu couldn't find the icu
library without manually setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in that build. Fortunately,
cabal takes care of that issue if a correctly spelled --extra-lib-dirs flag is
passed.
Conflicts:
pkgs/development/libraries/libxslt/default.nix
Commit 1764ea2b0a introduced changes to libxslt
in an awkward way to avoid re-builds on Linux. This patch has been simplified
during this merge.
uses for its core libraries, so that these files integrate seamlessly into one
profile, living right next to each other. This change is eventually going to
simply our with-packages wrapper quite a bit.
According to <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4013>, this
feature won't work with XCode versions older than 3.2.
This means that Mac users will have considerably larger binaries because
some build-time dependencies (such as HTTP) will be mis-detected as
run-time dependencies.
This patch configures all Cabal builds with '--enable-split-objs' unless the
Nix expression explicitly sets "enableSplitObjs = false". The Cabal manual [1]
describes this option as follows:
| The GHC -split-objs reduces the final size of the executables that use the
| library by allowing them to link with only the bits that they use rather
| than the entire library. The downside is that building the library takes
| longer and uses considerably more memory.
One immediate benefit of this change is that the 'darcs' closure defined in the
top-level no longer refers to GHC. The same is probably true with other
executable packages.
[1] http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/installing-packages.html#setup-configure
Jailbreaks-cabal allows Nixpkgs maintainers to quick-fix builds of packages
that over-specify their version requirements by removing the version
restrictions of all dependencies from the Cabal file. Set
jailbreak = true
in the build expression to activate this feature.
