I wanted to try cabal build with a test package for cabal-testsuite so changed to its folder and tried building it there. I was surprised that I couldn't --ignore-project. I reached for --project-dir instead and this did seem to help ignore projects higher in the directory tree.
Could we please enable --ignore-project for cabal build?
$ cd cabal-testsuite/PackageTests/Check/PackageFiles/VersionBounds
$ ls
cabal.out cabal.test.hs pkg.cabal
$ cabal build all --dry-run
Warning: this is a debug build of cabal-install with assertions enabled.
Configuration is affected by the following files:
- cabal.project
Resolving dependencies...
Error: [Cabal-7107]
Could not resolve dependencies:
[__0] trying: cabal-testsuite-3 (user goal)
[__1] unknown package: Cabal-hooks (dependency of cabal-testsuite)
[__1] fail (backjumping, conflict set: Cabal-hooks, cabal-testsuite)
After searching the rest of the dependency tree exhaustively,
these were the goals I've had most trouble fulfilling: cabal-testsuite, Cabal-hooks
$ cabal build all --dry-run --ignore-project
Error: cabal: unrecognized 'build' option `--ignore-project'
$ cabal build all --dry-run --project-dir=.
Warning: this is a debug build of cabal-install with assertions enabled.
Resolving dependencies...
Build profile: -w ghc-9.10.1 -O1
In order, the following would be built (use -v for more details):
- pkg-0 (lib) (first run)
I wanted to try
cabal build
with a test package forcabal-testsuite
so changed to its folder and tried building it there. I was surprised that I couldn't--ignore-project
. I reached for--project-dir
instead and this did seem to help ignore projects higher in the directory tree.Could we please enable
--ignore-project
forcabal build
?