Re: Patch for --global for bootstrap.sh

Dino, Jason, Thanks for that. Applied. On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 11:30 -0400, Dino Morelli wrote:

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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

----- 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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