>From looking at Yi's code, there seems to be a hard-coded list of arguments to pass to ghc. A hack would be to recompile Yi with the arguments to use a different package database...

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Rogan Creswick <creswick@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:
> More precisely, I'm trying to run yi in its own sandbox, created by
> cabal-dev.
>
> yi uses dyre to recompile its config file. Unsurprisingly, this fails, since
> ghc doesn't know anything about the yi install unless pointed to a separate
> package database.

I'm not familiar with dyre, is there any way to tell it to use a
specific package database? That *sounds* like it's the problem (since
that's the bulk of what cabal-dev does... it establishes a fresh
package db and hides the user db).

--Rogan

>
> Has anyone gotten a similar setup to work, or does anyone have any
> suggestions?
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