The existing `sed | find | perl` hack in the Makefile was not
including the man pages in the generated git-annex.cabal. I couldn't
figure out why it didn't work; running the `find | perl` part of the
command *did* list the man pages ...
So, I set up a new hack. It produces a cleaner .cabal file and
includes the man pages in the sdist. I changed git-annex.cabal and
its generation as follows:
- git-annex.cabal is now generated by a here document in
git-annex.cabal.template.sh. The here document has inline file list
insertion, whereas before the file lists were inserted with sed.
- The 'Extra-Source-Files:' field now only includes the non-source
files: the man pages, plain text documentation, and license.
- The source dependencies are now listed in 'Other-Modules' sections
in the 'Executable' and 'Test-Suite' sections. The list of
dependencies is generated by `gen-other-modules.sh`.
- The ./debian and ./doc are no longer included in the sdist package.
These were not installed anywhere by `cabal install`. A user that
wants them could clone the git repo.
Running the tests with cabal is not yet working, i.e.
cabal configure --enable-tests && cabal build && cabal test
and
cabal install --enable-tests
fail to find Utility.Touch. However, I did not break this: it doesn't
work for the git-annex package on Hackage either. Next step is to
figure out how to deal with HSC in cabal ... or not bother, because
`make test` works. I'm worried this is a cabal bug.
To test building from sdist, I've been running
cd ../.. ; cabal sdist ; cd dist ; tar xf git-annex-3.20120605.tar.gz && cd git-annex-3.20120605 && rm -fr /tmp/git-annex && cabal install --prefix=/tmp/git-annex && tree -A /tmp/git-annex
in the dist directory. Using `cabal-dev install` is a better test,
but is very slow.
