#822: world-file does not support $arch, $os, $compiler
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Reporter: josh | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.10.1.0
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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In my ~/.cabal/config, I have:
install-dirs user
prefix: /home/josh/.cabal/install/$arch-$os-$compiler
This allows packages for multiple architectures (such as 32-bit and
64-bit) or multiple compilers (such as ghc6 and ghc7) to coexist. It also
ensures that after upgrading the compiler, old libraries that won't work
automatically disappear.
Recent cabal added a "world" file, under ~/.cabal/world. I tried to move
this to the same directory, by adding:
world-file: /home/josh/.cabal/install/$arch-$os-$compiler/world
However, this generated the following error:
Error while Error while updating world-file. :
/home/josh/.cabal/install/$arch-$os-$compiler/: openNewBinaryFile: does
not exist (No such file or directory)
From this, I'd guess that cabal doesn't support those variables in world-
file like it does in prefix.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/822>
Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/>
Hackage: Cabal and related projects
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