They [happy,alex] are in <platform>/lib/extralibs/bin now for some reason. The HP installer should have added that to the PATH though.
Oh, thank you! I never thought of looking there. The installer didn't add it.
Mark, it would be amazingly helpful if http://www.haskell.org/platform/ had clear documentation about this! At the moment
* It's hard to find an authoritative list of what's in (a particular version of) HP. I tried the "Comprehensive" link on the HP page, leading to http://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html, and that did mention Happy and Alex, but in a general kind of way.
* I tried "Documentation" which leads here http://lambda.haskell.org/platform/doc/current/start.html, but that doesn't have a list of what's in it. (For the libraries part you can kind-of deduce it from the right hand column of the "libraries" link http://lambda.haskell.org/platform/doc/current/frames.html, but it's pretty indirect.
* I couldn't find a list of what executable programs should be installed.
* It would be really great to know where those executables live.
None of this is hard; maybe just no one has asked. Thanks!
Simon
From: Niklas Larsson [mailto:metaniklas@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 August 2013 02:10
To: Simon Peyton-Jones
Subject: Re: Haskell platform
Hi!
They are in <platform>/lib/extralibs/bin now for some reason. The HP installer should have added that to the PATH though.
Niklas
2013/8/23 Simon Peyton-Jones
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
They [happy,alex] are in <platform>/lib/extralibs/bin now for some reason. The HP installer should have added that to the PATH though. ****
That seems like an oversight - I can't think of a good reason to have them in a different bin directory.
I believe that maybe the fact that HP installer didn’t add the directory to my path is spurious:
· I unpacked the files to the wrong directory; then moved them. Of course that put the PATHs out of date
· HP installer changed my *system* settings not *user* settings, so I didn’t see the settings at all.
So that part may be my fault. But still, better documentation on the HP site, of what’s included and where binaries are, would be v useful.
Simon
From: Bryan O'Sullivan [mailto:bos@serpentine.com]
Sent: 23 August 2013 23:57
To: Simon Peyton-Jones
Cc: Niklas Larsson; Mark Lentczner; haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org; ghc-devs@haskell.org
Subject: Re: Haskell platform
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
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