hmm ... ;^). I found and read through part of ghc-pkg.hs ..
ghc-6.8.2/utils/ghc-pkg/ .. I have 6 "broken" Haskell package databases (not
debian) under /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/. When I run ghc-pkg on
them I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/cairo-0.9.12.1$
ghc-pkg --package=cairo.package.conf list
ghc-pkg: cairo.package.conf: parse error in package config file
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 2008 May 21, at 1:37, Galchin, Vasili wrote:
>
> I fairly innocuous question ;^). How does glihc-pkg know where are the
> *package.conf files are located?
>
>
> The installed ghc-pkg is a shell script, to wit:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> GHCPKGBIN=/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2/ghc-pkg.bin
> PKGCONF=/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2/package.conf
> exec $GHCPKGBIN --global-conf $PKGCONF ${1+"$@"}
>
>
> The user package.conf is constructed from your home directory
> (~/.ghc/platform-version/package.conf).
>
> --
> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
>
>
>
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