GHC-PACKAGE.ECLASS

Section: portage (5)
Updated: May 2013
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NAME

ghc-package.eclass - This eclass helps with the Glasgow Haskell Compiler's package configuration utility.  

DESCRIPTION

Helper eclass to handle ghc installation/upgrade/deinstallation process.  

FUNCTIONS

ghc-getghc

returns the name of the ghc executable

ghc-getghcpkg

Internal function determines returns the name of the ghc-pkg executable

ghc-getghcpkgbin

returns the name of the ghc-pkg binary (ghc-pkg itself usually is a shell script, and we have to bypass the script under certain circumstances); for Cabal, we add an empty global package config file, because for some reason the global package file must be specified

ghc-version

returns the version of ghc

ghc-bestcabalversion

return the best version of the Cabal library that is available

ghc-sanecabal

check if a standalone Cabal version is available for the currently used ghc; takes minimal version of Cabal as an optional argument

ghc-supports-shared-libraries

checks if ghc is built with support for building shared libraries (aka '-dynamic' option)

ghc-supports-threaded-runtime

checks if ghc is built with support for threaded runtime (aka '-threaded' option)

ghc-supports-smp

checks if ghc is built with support for multiple cores runtime

ghc-supports-dynamic-by-default

checks if ghc link against shared haskell libraries by default

ghc-extractportageversion

extract the version of a portage-installed package

ghc-libdir

returns the library directory

ghc-confdir

returns the (Gentoo) library configuration directory

ghc-localpkgconf

returns the name of the local (package-specific) package configuration file

ghc-makeghcilib

make a ghci foo.o file from a libfoo.a file

ghc-package-exists

tests if a ghc package exists

ghc-setup-pkg

creates a local (package-specific) package configuration file; the arguments should be uninstalled package description files, each containing a single package description; if no arguments are given, the resulting file is empty

ghc-fixlibpath

fixes the library and import directories path of the package configuration file

ghc-install-pkg

moves the local (package-specific) package configuration file to its final destination

ghc-register-pkg

registers all packages in the local (package-specific) package configuration file

ghc-reregister

re-adds all available .conf files to the global package conf file, to be used on a ghc reinstallation

ghc-unregister-pkg

unregisters a package configuration file protected are all packages that are still contained in another package configuration file

ghc-reverse

help-function: reverse a list

ghc-elem

help-function: element-check

ghc-listpkg

show the packages in a package configuration file

ghc-package_pkg_postinst

exported function: registers the package-specific package configuration file

ghc-package_pkg_prerm

exported function: unregisters the package-specific package configuration file; a package contained therein is unregistered only if it the same package is not also contained in another package configuration file ...

 

AUTHORS

Original Author: Andres Loeh <kosmikus@gentoo.org>

 

MAINTAINERS

"Gentoo's Haskell Language team" <haskell@gentoo.org>

 

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/  

FILES

/usr/portage/eclass/ghc-package.eclass  

SEE ALSO

ebuild(5)

http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/ghc-package.eclass?view=log

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NAME

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

AUTHORS

MAINTAINERS

REPORTING BUGS

FILES

SEE ALSO

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