On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:15:21PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Can someone remind me why we have the --scratchdir flag for hugs. > > As far as I can see all it does is specify where some temporary files go > after being preprocessed but before being installed. The default is > dist/scratch. > > The question is, why is it configurable and not simply always > dist/scratch? > > What problem are people solving by modifying --scratchdir ?
It allows the hugs build system to place the uninstalled libraries so that hugs can be run in-place (e.g. for testing) prior to installation. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
