#601: cabal setup doesn't respect --prefix ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: zooko | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- I'm trying to install Cabal here. The install process (and the running cabal executable itself) isn't allowed to write into {{{/var/lib}}}, nor into any directory outside of {{{/usr/local/stow/Cabal}}}. So I pass {{{--prefix=/usr/local/stow/Cabal}}} and in addition I use unix permissions to make it so that if it attempts to write outside of the specified prefix it will fail. Good thing I did, because it does indeed so attempt: {{{ ./Setup configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/Cabal ./Setup build ./Setup install Fri Oct 23 21:29:12 MDT 2009 Installing library in /usr/local/stow/Cabal/lib/Cabal-1.6.0.2/ghc-6.10.4 Registering Cabal-1.6.0.2... Reading package info from "dist/installed-pkg-config" ... done. Writing new package config file... ghc-pkg: /var/lib/ghc-6.10.4/./package.conf: you don't have permission to modify this file }}} Is there a different option to tell it to use a {{{package.conf}}} file in a specific directory? In any case, the fact that it is attempting to write outside the specified {{{--prefix}}} seems like a bug to me. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/601 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects