Hi, Tobi, and welcome to Haskell. Maybe this would help: http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2008/02/adding-data-files-using-cabal.html See also the Cabal User's Guide -- in particular, the section on "Accessing data files from package code" -- http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/ http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html#accessing-... Gregory On 2014-Jun-23, Tobias Pflug and/or a Mail User Agent wrote:

Hi haskellers,

i'm new to haskell and am currently working on some tool that is supposed to fiddle with hoogle database files. Now I'm looking for a sane way to determine the directory where hoogle stores its database directories (when you perform `hoogle data`). In my case this is: .cabal/share/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.8.2/hoogle-4.2.33/databases

So this is [home directory]/.cabal/[ghc-version]/[hoogle-version]/databases

Could someone suggest me a sane way how I can determine this path at runtime ? Maybe there is a way to extract this from somewhere ? I'm out of ideas on this. I could of course take the easy way out and let users declare the path as config parameter but it would be nice if there was a way ...

thanks in advance.

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