On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 18:15 +0300, Esa Ilari Vuokko wrote:
* Are defaultMain-helpers supposed to turn relative paths from commandline into absolute ones? (I ran into this problem with Alex' Setup.lhs, which changes working directory for copying files.)
No idea. Can you be more specific?
Running following in alex source directory
setup copy --destdir=dist\cabal2wix
causes alex's setup hooks copy files in template\ directory to template\dist\cabal2wix\$datadir, because dist\cabal2wix is assumed to be absolute, and hook changes the working directory into template\.
Sounds like the hook should not change the working directory. eg instead of: install pkg_descr lbi copy_dest = excursion "templates" $ do let dataDir = mkDataDir pkg_descr lbi copy_dest createDirectoryIfMissing True dataDir sequence [ copyFile f (dataDir ++ '/':f) | (f,_) <- all_templates ] it should stay in the same dir and just prefix "templates/": install pkg_descr lbi copy_dest = do let dataDir = mkDataDir pkg_descr lbi copy_dest createDirectoryIfMissing True dataDir sequence [ copyFile ("templates" f) (dataDir f) | (f,_) <- all_templates ] Duncan