Hi Simon, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > That probably isn't a good idea - the version of mingw we ship with GHC > isn't intended for general use, it's for use internally by GHC only.
This is a temporary measure to work around a bug in Cabal [1]. This won't be needed with GHC 6.12.2. > By > adding that directory to the PATH you override any other mingw or cygwin > that the user might have in their PATH. Actually no, $INSTDIR/mingw/bin is *appended* to PATH, so the previously installed version of mingw will take precedence. [1] http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/114 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
