"Jeremy Shaw" jeremy.shaw@linspireinc.com writes:

Hello,

I started working on building -prof .debs by default, but I ran into a minor snag. I do not see an easy way to seperate the generated files into the -dev and -prof packages -- all the files are lumped into the same directory tree.

Here is the process I am using:

1. setup configure --enable-library-profiling
2. setup build
3. setup copy --copy-prefix $tmp

The problem is, the build phase builds both the profiled and non-profiled version, and puts them in the same place. The best option I see at the moment is to use 'find' to find all the files that look like profiling enabled files and move them out of the -dev package into the -prof package. That seems error prone however.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Perhaps cabal should provide better support for this operation?

Not sure any better way to do this w/ cabal right now. You could add a flag to suppress the non-profiled build and do it in two steps, or add a flag to output hte profiled builds elsewhere. Both of those sound a little dicy, but it could probably be made to work.

peace,

isaac