Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How to thoroughly clean up Haskell stuff on linux

On Oct 13, 2007, at 3:51 , Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2007-10-12, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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On Oct 12, 2007, at 17:38 , Lihn, Steve wrote:

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Installing: --prefix=~/cabal/lib/haddock-0.8/ghc-6.4 &

This looks suspicious to me: the "~" metacharacter is only understood by shells, and only in certain circumstances (i.e. only at the beginning of a "word", not after a "="),

This likely the problem, but a reasonable shell (i.e. zsh) will expand in this circumstance:

zsh only does so with "setopt magicequalsubst". -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH