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| author | Gleb Popov <arrowd@FreeBSD.org> | 2022-11-23 08:43:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Gleb Popov <arrowd@FreeBSD.org> | 2022-11-23 11:48:05 +0000 |
| commit | ef23f41eb565c84fc675bc9dbf1810e51c616799 (patch) | |
| tree | 9633457f6a42fb9504abbbdcb34b0d82548084e6 | |
| parent | da1bf04b0206bab24bbc28b7669d1ad85fc04a45 (diff) | |
| download | doc-ef23f41eb565c84fc675bc9dbf1810e51c616799.tar.gz doc-ef23f41eb565c84fc675bc9dbf1810e51c616799.zip | |
porter-handbook: Document recently added CABAL_REVISION knob.
Reviewed By: #docs, fernape
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37474
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/content/en/books/porters-handbook/uses/_index.adoc | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/porters-handbook/uses/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/porters-handbook/uses/_index.adoc index 3a05b70c57..dad36f57b2 100644 --- a/documentation/content/en/books/porters-handbook/uses/_index.adoc +++ b/documentation/content/en/books/porters-handbook/uses/_index.adoc @@ -199,10 +199,14 @@ This argument is implicitly added if `USE_GITHUB` or `USE_GITLAB` is present. The framework provides the following variables: +`CABAL_REVISION`:: +Haskell packages hosted on Hackage may have revisions. +Set this knob to an integer number to pull in revised package description. + `USE_CABAL`:: If the software uses Haskell dependencies, list them in this variable. Each item should be present on Hackage and be listed in form `packagename-_0.1.2_`. -Dependencies can have revisions, which are specified after the `_` symbol. +Dependencies can have revisions too, which are specified after the `_` symbol. Automatic generation of the dependency list is supported, see crossref:special[using-cabal,Building Haskell Applications with `cabal`]. `CABAL_FLAGS`:: |