Getting source libraries
Suppose I installed a GHC binary package, and now I decide I want source for all my libraries. What is the easiest way to go about doing this? In theory I could download every source package individually and unpack the source into my directory tree, but this is really a last resort since there are a lot of libraries.
The GHC source distribution will get you all the sources for all the all the libraries that come with GHC. As for any other libraries -- you should have the sources for those already, if they were installed via Cabal. -- Jason Dusek |...source distribution...| http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_1.html#sources
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Jason Dusek
The GHC source distribution will get you all the sources for all the all the libraries that come with GHC.
As for any other libraries -- you should have the sources for those already, if they were installed via Cabal.
Well, I've downloaded it, but how to install them without building/installing GHC? For example, in the source package all the library folders have names like "array", "base", etc. In my binary installation they have names like "array-0.2.0.0" and "base-3.0.3.0". There's a number of ways I can figure out to deal with, like a perl script etc, but I thought maybe there is an easier, "official" way to do it. I really don't know anything about cabal or the GHC build system yet, but was looking for like an "install source" or "update source" or "make and install libraries" command either through cabal or the GHC makefile.
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