#541: bootstrap.sh ignores PREFIX environment variable ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: nr | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: major | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: Linux ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment (by nr): I had a partial config file because I created one, since I was encouraged to by the output from some command or other. I'm sympathetic to the problem of one install per system vs one config file per user. In that case I hope the Right Thing to do is that every time cabal (cabal-install) runs, it checks to see if ~/.cabal/config exists and if not, creates it. Unless that operation fails (with a suitable error messages), all other references to the file with then make sense. Even running {{{ cabal -h }}} should create the file. A cabal-config man page in section 5 would be a bonus. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/541#comment:3 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects