On 17 June 2005 17:19, Ross Paterson wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 04:46:18PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
Ok, so $(ProgramFiles) is determined by the registry. Taking into account comments so far, I think we have:
prefix = $(ProgramFiles)\Haskell\$(PackageName)-$(Version) libdir = $(prefix)\$(Compiler)-$(Version) bindir = $(prefix)\bin
these are only defaults - users & packagers are free to change them.
Slight modification after Brian's comments: if the package is an executable, then
prefix = $(ProgramFiles)\$(PackageName)-$(Version)
(i.e. only libraries on under $(ProgramFiles)\Haskell).
The default value of $(prefix) under Unix recently silently changed from /usr/local to /usr/local/$(Compiler)-$(Version). I'm not sure that's the right thing: it's incompatible with the FHS and with autoconf, and puts executables in a place that's not on my path.
I've fixed that, and made the changes above. However, I think $(libdir) and $(bindir) should be configurable as options to ./setup configure (weren't we going to do that at one stage?). The story is now: On Windows, prefix | is_excutable = $(ProgramFiles)\$(PackageId) | is_library = $(ProgramFiles)\Haskell\$(PackageId) libdir = $(prefix)\$(CompilerId) bindir = $(prefix)\bin On Unix, prefix = "/usr/local" libdir = $(prefix)/$(PackageId)/$(CompilerId) bindir = $(prefix)/bin This is ok for the default prefix, but not great if you want to set prefix to /opt/pkg-1.0, for example - that's why we need to be able to set libdir independently. Cheers, Simon