I think I need a dynamic mechanism. I can work with the current regime for the moment but when I have a demonstrator (soon I hope) I will get back to you.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Coutts [mailto:duncan.cou...@googlemail.com] Sent: 03 October 2011 15:13 To: Chris Dornan Cc: cabal-devel@haskell.org Subject: RE: [Hackage] #282: profiling versions of libraries not managed well On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 08:21 -0500, Chris Dornan wrote: > Ooops -- I meant to start another thread. > > I have found the --package-db flag which Cabal uses. It would be > really useful if Cabal could also use an environment variable (e.g., > CABAL_PACKAGE_DB) for the purpose. We don't use the GHC_PACKAGE_PATH. You ought to be able to set a global --package-db flag by putting it in the ~/.cabal/config. I don't plan to add any equivalent env var, but we're likely to add support for local cabal config files. What kind of use case are you thinking of? Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
