Daniel Fischer wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 17:52:19 schrieb Andrew Coppin:
It also puts the binary in a strange place, but I guess I can live with that...
Which strange place? By default, it should go to ~/.cabal/bin, I think.
Indeed. You'd expect it to be in some system-wide location, but apparently not.
Anyway, you should add that to your path, put something like
if [ -z `/bin/echo ${PATH} | /usr/bin/grep cabal` ] then export PATH="/home/andrew/.cabal/bin:$PATH" fi
in your .bashrc
Uh... what?
Now, hypothetically, I should have a Linux Haskell system, so I can actually compile *anything* that's on Hackage.
Not really, you'll need to install external libraries (C stuff, mostly) for many packages. But it should be a lot easier than on Windows.
On Linux, it seems you install the development package, rerun Cabal, and it it somehow "knows" that the library is installed and how to find in. On Windows... well, forget it. It'll never work, so you might as well not bother trying.