On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Mauricio
I want to use a few libraries from hackage and have already download and built them. Can I install those libraries somewhere in my home dir (I want to avoid installing as root) so that ghc can find them?
Sure, just write: runhaskell Setup.hs configure --user --prefix=personal/directory/where/to/install/the/package --user tells cabal to install the package in the user package-database You might want to use cabal-install [1] in order to automatize the insallation of Cabal packages. By default it uses the --user flag and copies the package files under $HOME/.cabal/. Important caveat: Make sure to also supply the --user flag when compiling other packages which depend on your library. Otherwise Cabal will only look for it in the global package-dabatase and won¡t be able to find it. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/cabal-install