On 13 September 2005 10:52, Jens Petersen wrote:

I think a --libdir option is needed in Cabal to help packagers that need to specific where libraries are installed.

For example Fedora Core x86_64 (amd64) arch 64bit libs should be installed under $prefix/lib64, whereas cabal assumes $prefix/lib.

Could a --libdir please be added or is there another way?

I had a proposal for this recently, but it hasn't been implemented yet: http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2005-August/004232.html (there are earlier and later messages in that thread). Cheers, Simon