#256: Copying files during installation is oblivious to ~ ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by ross@soi.city.ac.uk): On my system autoconf 2.61 objects that the argument doesn't start with a slash: {{{ % ./configure --prefix=~/local configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: ~/local }}} That's not appropriate on Windows, of course. The standard behaviour is that ~ (like ? and *) is expanded when trying to match a whole shell argument against file names. In other positions, one uses $HOME, as Ian suggested. I'm against expanding or warning. If we fill the code with heuristic tests, it will be unmanageable. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/256#comment:7 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects