Skip to content
  • Edward Z. Yang's avatar
    Never use --enable-profiling when invoking Setup. · bf3d3e68
    Edward Z. Yang authored
    
    
    In Cabal 1.22.5.0, the semantics of
    --disable-profiling/--enable-profiling depend on ordering (because there
    is a hack that operates by looking at the current flag assignment and
    doing something). In particular, if I specify --enable-library-profiling
    --disable-profiling, I end up with library profiling DISABLED.
    
    The fix is that we NEVER pass --enable-profiling or --disable-profiling
    to Cabal. At the moment, and according to my historical analysis, Cabal
    ONLY uses configProf to affect the effective library/executable
    profiling, which means that anything we do with --enable-profiling, we
    can do using the library/executable profiling individually. Since these
    are always flags for the versions of Cabal library we support, we will
    get order invariance. Historical versions have varied on whether or not
    setting executable profiling implies library profiling, but if we set
    both explicitly this change in behavior doesn't matter.
    
    This patch is difficult to test because the bad profiling flags
    can't be induced on an inplace build.  I tested by hand by building
    a package that depended on 'distributive' by hand.
    
    Fixes #3790.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEdward Z. Yang <ezyang@cs.stanford.edu>
    bf3d3e68