On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:05:11AM -0500, Rich Neswold wrote: > On 6/13/07, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Did I understand that correctly that you don't want to see binaries > >> with rpath's pointing to install directories such as /usr/lib/gcc-6.6? > >> So, this forces us to use a wrapper in all cases. > > > >Please think seriously about mangling the names of Haskell libraries to > >include version information and dropping them in $PREFIX/lib with every > >other language's libraries. Haskell is not special, and users expect > >libraries to be in /usr/lib. No wrapper needed, no RPATH needed, as far > >as I can see no fanciness at all. > > > > Actually, Haskell libraries ought to be placed in /usr/local/lib (or > /usr/pkg/lib for systems that use the Package System: > http://www.pkgsrc.org). > Haskell libraries shouldn't mingle with the base OS libraries. But it > shouldn't be separate from the other third-party libraries, either.
No, haskell libraries ought to be placed in /usr/lib when they are being installed by the OS. I don't want my GHC 6.8 debian install to pollute /usr/local. (/usr/local is fine for local builds of course; that's why I used $PREFIX). Stefan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
