Am Mittwoch 22 April 2009 12:06:37 schrieb Duncan Coutts: > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 11:33 +0200, david48 wrote: > > The default should at least be consistent among cabal install, runghc > > Setup.hs, installing GHC, Gtk2Hs, and so on. > > > > If GHC is installed in /home/myusername/local, > > Where you choose to install ghc is not related. > > > what does cabal install --global ? > > Global always means /usr/local by default, unless you change it in the > cabal config file. > > By default ghc, gtk2hs also install globally in /usr/local (unless you > specify a --prefix.)
But when I install a binary, it always ends up in /usr/lib and /usr/bin, not in /usr/local. How come? Fortunately, once I've got the first binary, it's source installs from then on :) > > This tradition of global and /usr/local for ./configure scripts is ok, > but for a convenient package manager it's not necessarily ideal. > > Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
