31 Mar
2010
31 Mar
'10
7:30 a.m.
Hi Simon,
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Simon Marlow
That probably isn't a good idea - the version of mingw we ship with GHC isn't intended for general use, it's for use internally by GHC only.
This is a temporary measure to work around a bug in Cabal [1]. This won't be needed with GHC 6.12.2.
By adding that directory to the PATH you override any other mingw or cygwin that the user might have in their PATH.
Actually no, $INSTDIR/mingw/bin is *appended* to PATH, so the previously installed version of mingw will take precedence. [1] http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/114 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments