RE: environment variables for ghc

On 09 March 2005 08:29, Frederik Eaton wrote:

Is it possible to set environment variables which ghc will look at, corresponding to command line options such as '-i' or '-package-conf'? I.e. the equivalent of gcc's LIBRARY_PATH, CPATH, etc... or perl's PERL5LIB or even PERL5OPT (which is the most flexible). These would be really convenient since I have a package.conf file in my home directory for locally installed packages, and some modules in another directory that I often link to.

There's the GHCRTS environment variable that you can use for setting heap sizes and so on, and the ~/.ghci file, but nothing for setting ghc command-line arguments. We're a bit wary of adding more things that we have to ask for in a bug report... Cheers, Simon