#3739: ghc-cabal mishandles relative paths in arguments
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Reporter: asuffield | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: Build System
Version: | Keywords:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown
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Just making a record of this one, don't expect it to get fixed in a hurry
ghc-cabal chdirs into the source directory when it runs, because cabal
wants to run there. Unfortunately this means relative paths in the
arguments are treated as relative to the cabal file, rather than the
directory where ghc-cabal was invoked. This is notably an issue for
--package-db, which currently requires an absolute path in order to avoid
this issue.
(This appears to be the last thing in ghc which needs an absolute path;
when it's gone, a lot of things become simpler)
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3739>
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