I'm not sure whether this will have the desired effect in all
cases; however, it works for me. I've long desired a
`--global` installation for cabal and this seems to at least
get the bootstrap right.
--
Jason Dusek
I've taken this code, added to it and integrated it into cabal-install 0.7
And then tested it with this setup:
Debian GNU/Linux squeeze (testing)
GHC 6.10.3
Cabal 1.7.2
cabal-install 0.7
darcs patch attached with the changes below. Thanks Jason!
- Dino Morelli
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Sat Jun 13 11:09:58 EDT 2009 Dino Morelli
* Now supporting explicit --user or --global switches in bootstrap.sh with usage feedback for bad args
This change was adapted from work submitted to the cabal-devel mailing list by Jason Dusek.
{
hunk ./bootstrap.sh 21
+SCOPE_OF_INSTALLATION="--user"
+
+
+for arg in $*
+do
+ case "${arg}" in
+ "--user")
+ SCOPE_OF_INSTALLATION=${arg}
+ shift;;
+ "--global")
+ SCOPE_OF_INSTALLATION=${arg}
+ PREFIX="/usr/local"
+ shift;;
+ *)
+ echo "Unknown argument or option, quitting: ${arg}"
+ echo "usage: bootstrap.sh [OPTION]"
+ echo
+ echo "options:"
+ echo " --user Install for the local user (default)"
+ echo " --global Install systemwide"
+ exit;;
+ esac
+done
hunk ./bootstrap.sh 164
- ./Setup configure --user "--prefix=${PREFIX}" \
+ ./Setup configure ${SCOPE_OF_INSTALLATION} "--prefix=${PREFIX}" \
}
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