On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 10:31 PM Erik de Castro Lopo <mle...@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> I maintaing multiple versions of GHC on all the machines I use regularly > for Haskell development. I have: > > * ghc-7.6.3 installed under /usr/lib/ghc-7.6/ > * ghc-7.8.4 installed under /usr/lib/ghc-7.8/ > * ghc-7.10.2 installed under /usr/lib/ghc-7.10/ > > To switch between versions all I need to do is modify $PATH > to remove say /usr/lib/ghc-7.6/bin and add /usr/lib/ghc-7.10/bin. > This lets me have two terminal window side by side with different > versions of GHC. > > I actually have a shell function to to do this PATH mangling. I can > document this more fully if anyone is interested. > > I have a similar setup where I install different versions of GHC in different directories. But I use GNU stow[1] to create and remove symlinks in /usr/local/* so that I can use one version of GHC as the default. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ Josef
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