#1878: --print-docdir gives the wrong results in a binary distribution
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Reporter: simonmar | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.8.2
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.8.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Easy (1 hr)
Testcase: | Architecture: Unknown
Os: Unknown |
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Comment (by duncan):
Replying to [comment:2 claus]:
> but you still need to be able to find the right `ghc-pkg` for the `ghc`
at hand.
Yes! Cabal has trouble with this. We've got some tricky code to make
clever guesses to find the right ghc-pkg on the basis of the location of
ghc. (It then checks that it is indeed the same version). If we could just
ask ghc where ghc-pkg is, that'd be rather nicer.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1878#comment:3>
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