Am Dienstag, 18. November 2008 22:24 schrieben Sie: > > > How do I install and configure it so that it is integrated best with > > > GHC 6.10.1? For example, should cabal use some directory in the GHC > > > tree to place compiled packages in? > > The defaults for user or global should be fine. There is no need to put > additional packages into the ghc install tree, indeed I would recommend > against doing that.
Hmm, /usr/local is not so fine for me since it makes packages hard(er) to uninstall. I use stow (<http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/>). > > Cabal wants to place package info in $HOME/.cabal. However, I want to > > install packages globally with sudo. So I want to have a global package > > cache. Is there a common directory to be used for that or is > > cabal[-install] only for per-user installations? > > It can do per-user or global. Per-user is the default. > > If you want to do the build as user and just the install as root then > you can use the --global --root-cmd=sudo options. If you want to use > this every time then you can set that in the ~/.cabal/config file. I want the package cache etc. global. The problem is that with sudo, cabal still uses $HOME/.cabal where $HOME is the home directory of the ordinary user (not the one of root). Does --global change the directory for cabal configuration and the package cache to something different than $HOME/.cabal? > The cabal user guide lists the default install directories for global > and user installs. Okay, I looked at the cabal-install docs. And the only doc seems to be the output of cabal with the --help option. Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
