Yeah, sorry, i was commenting on the general kind of variables, not on
this one in particular, which i don't really know from which code it
comes from.
I can see it in "ghc-pkg describe $pkg" where $pkg is a core package
but not in packages installed with cabal-install, so there's probably
something wrong with the ghc build system or installer on windows.
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Alistair Bayley
i.e. the $httptopdir isn't being expanded, or whatever is meant to happen to it.
Those variables are supposed to be expanded by Cabal, and here on linux i get: --read-interface=/usr/local/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base,/usr/local/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/base.haddock
Really? I searched the cabal source for httptopdir and found nothing, so I was wondering where it was meant to happen (of course it could be that my search was incorrectly specified). Do you know which module is meant to expand this? Distribution.Simple.InstallDirs.defaultInstallDirs looked a likely candidate, but no sign of $httptopdir there.
Alistair