#431: Distribution.Make requires to use sudo and --global ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: shelarcy | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: wxHaskell | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.10.1 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): So the proper solution seems to be to tell configure which package db file(s) to read from and which package db to register into. Ideally we would require that the makefile can spit out a package registration file. In fact that's really necessary for a cabalised package to work for a distro since it needs to run `runghc Setup register --gen- pkg-config=foo.pkg`. So the details to sort out are exactly how to tell configure what package dbs to read from and which one to register into. We could do this perhaps using a ghc-pkg flags variable which we would set to something like `--user` or `--package-conf`. I guess the same flags should work for the register make target though I would prefer a method that produces the package registration info as output rather than actually doing the registration. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/431#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects