24 Sep
2015
24 Sep
'15
11:01 a.m.
On 09/22/2015 12:11 AM, Gershom B wrote: [--snip--]
The proposal there would be to add an env variable (perhaps CABAL_PATH_PREFIX) which, if it existed, would be added to the path before running child processes (such as those kicked off by build-type:configure). That way windows environments could provide the Msys2 bin directory and those tools would then be made available to the configure scripts, etc.
I'm not sure I understand... what does CABAL_PATH_PREFIX add over just adding whatever is needed to the $PATH before executing cabal? (Without having looked at the issue thread.) I'm mainly worried about option-itis... which cabal-install is already suffering a lot from. Regards,