On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> wrote: > The amusing part is, if you "sudo cabal > install" so it has permission to put the installed files into place, it then > uses root's configuration file instead. *sigh* Well anyway, I managed to > work around that. But... Cabal *still* fails to find Alex or Happy, even > though they're now in the search path. > > Oh, wait. They're in *my* search path. They're not in root's search path. > [...]
It sounds to me like your life would be a lot easier if you knew about cabal-install's root-cmd configuration parameter! Open your .cabal/config file and uncomment and set: root-cmd: sudo Now cabal-install will take up root permissions when and only when necessary :) I only found this out after asking #haskell about similar problems. Perhaps it should be more prominent somehow. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
