[darcs-users] [little bit OT] How to pass additional parameters on buildbot to cabal configuring darcs?

[Matthias Kilian]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:17:50PM -0700, Judah Jacobson wrote:
> > Tweaking the build master configuration may be an option (for darcs,
> > not for ghc), but I really think cabal is flawed in that it doesn't
> > allow some overrides in the environment (like autoconf generated
> > configure scripts do).
> 
> I believe you can tell Cabal about extra directories by adding the
> following lines to ~/.cabal/config :
> 
> extra-include-dirs: /opt/local/include
> extra-lib-dirs: /opt/local/lib
> 
> Does that do what you want?

I'm really not going to implement any workarounds for flaws located
in cabal (and autoconf). But anyway, it's offtopic here, and i'll
see wether cabal is fixable and followup on the appropriate mailing
lists.