On 10 February 2005 15:36, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

"Simon Marlow" writes:

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Ok, fixed. The right way to get the location of the package.conf file is to ask ghc-pkg, BTW. In fact, the right way is not to know the location of package.conf at all, but to use ghc-pkg to query its contents. The contents of package.conf is proprietary :-)

And indeed hmake does use ghc-pkg, when it needs to find import directories etc. But the thing is, previous versions of ghc-pkg reported such directories as e.g. "$libdir/base", and how do you find out what $libdir refers to...?

ghc --print-libdir Cheers, Simon