Jens Petersen writes:

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?

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?

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, isaac

Isaac Jones wrote:

Jens Petersen writes:

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Isaac Jones wrote:

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?

Yes, as in whether install dir is made under /usr/lib or /usr/lib/ghc-<version>/ or whatever. So really this is a request for a "--libdir" option to setup? In some cases --prefix may be sufficient, but not if there is both an executable and libraries in a package for example.

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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?

Well I'm not sure yet what the best solution is. However I mean if we're building libs with ghc.x86_64 say then they should be installed under say /usr/lib64. Well it may be too much to ask that cabal gets this completely right at this stage, but at least the "--libdir" option mentioned above would help packagers.

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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.

Yep. Actually if this were the default, I probably wouldn't need --libdir much at all. :-) Jens