2009/10/6 Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi Paul,
Paul Moore
writes: Is there a way I could have specified that I want the global install directory in D:\Apps\Haskell? I guess I could hack my cabal\config file (and presumably change PATH) but that seems a bit ugly.
A bit ugly? Why? That's precisely what the config files are for.
Looks like it also doesn't work :-(
grep global -A7 "D:\Documents and Settings\uk03306\Application Data\cabal\config" install-dirs global -- prefix: "D:\\Apps\\Haskell\\Cabal" -- bindir: $prefix\bin -- libdir: $prefix -- libsubdir: $pkgid\$compiler -- libexecdir: $prefix\$pkgid -- datadir: "D:\\Apps\\Haskell\\Cabal" -- datasubdir: $pkgid
cabal install mersenne-random -fuse_sse2 Resolving dependencies... Downloading mersenne-random-1.0... Configuring mersenne-random-1.0... Preprocessing library mersenne-random-1.0... Building mersenne-random-1.0... [1 of 1] Compiling System.Random.Mersenne ( System\Random\Mersenne.hs, dist\build\System\Random\Mersenne.o ) D:\Utils\Mingw\bin\ar.exe: creating dist\build\libHSmersenne-random-1.0.a Installing library in C:\Program Files\Haskell\mersenne-random-1.0\ghc-6.10.4 Registering mersenne-random-1.0... Reading package info from "dist\\installed-pkg-config" ... done. Writing new package config file... done.
Note - "Installing library in C:\Program Files\Haskell\mersenne-random-1.0\ghc-6.10.4"
cabal --version cabal-install version 0.6.2 using version 1.6.0.3 of the Cabal library
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/365 may be relevant, but it says it's fixed :-( Paul