#645: cabal-install ignores --prefix ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: StefanK | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ This is not a duplicate of #601. Installing a package with rm -rf ~/.ghc ~/.cabal cabal clean cabal configure --user --prefix="${HOME}/opt" cabal build cabal install will install the binaries in '/home/sk/.cabal/bin' instead of '/home/sk/opt/bin'. I'll attach a toy project demonstrating this. System: sk@watarrka:~> ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.1 sk@watarrka:~> cabal --version cabal-install version 0.8.0 using version 1.8.0.2 of the Cabal library -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/645 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects