On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 12:53:52PM +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: > >> > ($PROGRAMFILES\Haskell Platform\$HP_VERSION). > >> Is this location configurable? > > > > Of course you can change the install location. You'll have to > > edit packages.conf manually, though, if you'll later decide to > > move the Haskell Platform directory somewhere else. > > ? .. checking .. argh!*& - thanks for pointing out that misfeature: > > Pre Cabal, ghc installations were *relocatable* (no hardcoded absolute > paths, everything relative to where ghc is).
I'm not sure what you mean. My 6.10.2 GHC still has everything relative to $topdir (and $httptopdir) in package.conf. > Now, ghc's package.conf is full of absolute path references for > cabal-installed packages. I don't think any libraries that didn't come with GHC were ever relocatable, but I could well be wrong about that. It would be nice if the HP installer installed everything relocatably, though, I agree. And perhaps even global cabal-install installs, where --prefix is not given, could install to the appropriate place and use $topdir too. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
