Re: ANN: Cabal 0.5 (GHC 6.4 release candidate)

Isaac Jones wrote:

Jens Petersen writes:

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Isaac Jones wrote:

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This is a release-candidate for 0.6, which will be in GHC 6.4.

Thanks for the rc release. :)

It would be nice if cabal allowed more choice or configuration of install directories IMHO: in particular libdir comes to mind.

Do you mean more control over where the libraries themselves end up? Of course, you can use --prefix during configure, but then cabal will still put things under that prefix in a pre-determined place. You're asking for control over exactly where the libraries go?

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Also it would be nice if the default was multilib aware (eg for Fedora on x86_64 libdir is "/usr/lib64").

I don't quite understand. This is for systems where you might have mixed 32 and 64 bit binaries? You want cabal to detect this situation and compile two binaries, or you would just like it to detect the default libraries location on that target?

I'm not sure what Isaac meant, but to me it would be the ability to specify one or the other. Building two versions would be nice, but then if there were a problem with one build you might not complete the second build, which might be the one you really want. An argument to configure is the logical thing to me.

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Personally I would like to see ghc libraries at least installed under ghc's libdir since their ABI depends on the version of ghc they are built with, ie typically under $libdir/ghc-$ghc_version/ rather than $libdir.

You mean by default, without using the --prefix flag? That seems pretty reasonable.

peace,

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