[THRIFT-905] Make haskell thrift bindings use automake to compile and install

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Component/s: Haskell - Compiler, Haskell - Library

Environment

Mac OS X 10.6, ghc 6.12.3 (haskell platform 2010.2)

Darwin - 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18:28:53 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.12.3, for Haskell 98, stage 2 booted by GHC version 6.12.2

• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Christian Lavoie
• Reporter: Christian Lavoie
• Created: 18/Sep/10 19:19
• Updated: 28/Sep/10 06:11
• Resolved: 27/Sep/10 17:26

Description

Makes automake call cabal to compile the haskell library. Not the prettiest, but allows (theoretical) support for non-ghc compilers.

Needs to be applied with patch -p1; patch depends on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-901 due to existing brokenness in bindings.