Travis code

.travis.yml

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+# NB: don't set `language: haskell` here
+
+# The following enables several GHC versions to be tested; often it's enough to test only against the last release in a major GHC version. Feel free to omit lines listings versions you don't need/want testing for.
+env:
+ - CABALVER=1.20 GHCVER=7.8.4
+
+# Note: the distinction between `before_install` and `install` is not important.
+before_install:
+ - travis_retry sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:hvr/ghc
+ - travis_retry sudo apt-get update
+ - travis_retry sudo apt-get install cabal-install-$CABALVER ghc-$GHCVER # see note about happy/alex
+ - export PATH=/opt/ghc/$GHCVER/bin:/opt/cabal/$CABALVER/bin:$PATH
+
+install:
+ - cabal --version
+ - echo "$(ghc --version) [$(ghc --print-project-git-commit-id 2> /dev/null || echo '?')]"
+ - travis_retry cabal update
+ - cabal install --only-dependencies --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks
+
+# Here starts the actual work to be performed for the package under test; any command which exits with a non-zero exit code causes the build to fail.
+script:
+ - if [ -f configure.ac ]; then autoreconf -i; fi
+ - cabal configure --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks -v2  # -v2 provides useful information for debugging
+ - cabal build   # this builds all libraries and executables (including tests/benchmarks)
+ - cabal test
+ - cabal check
+ - cabal sdist   # tests that a source-distribution can be generated
+
+# The following scriptlet checks that the resulting source distribution can be built & installed
+ - export SRC_TGZ=$(cabal info . | awk '{print $2 ".tar.gz";exit}') ;
+   cd dist/;
+   if [ -f "$SRC_TGZ" ]; then
+      cabal install --force-reinstalls "$SRC_TGZ";
+   else
+      echo "expected '$SRC_TGZ' not found";
+      exit 1;
+   fi