Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Sonntag 18 April 2010 00:02:52 schrieb Chris Dornan: Hi Everyone, I am trying to get cabal-install to work on a system in which /tmp is mounted noexec. Is there any way to configure it to use another directory? cabal-install gets its temporary directory via

Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de writes: cabal-install gets its temporary directory via System.Directory.getTemporaryDirectory, so you can specify some other directory via the TMPDIR environment variable (TMP on windows). Except I think Chris wants to be able to specify a directory,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Erlend Hamberg
On Sunday 18. April 2010 00.49.28 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: Except I think Chris wants to be able to specify a directory, since other applications would probably want to keep using /tmp for TMPDIR. alias cabal=TMPDIR=/foo cabal -- Erlend Hamberg “Everything will be ok in the end. If it's

RE: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Chris Dornan
Thanks Daniel and Erlend, I now have cabal-install working. Chris -Original Message- From: daniel.is.fisc...@web.de [mailto:daniel.is.fisc...@web.de] Sent: 17 April 2010 5:4 PM To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Cc: Chris Dornan Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Erlend Hamberg ehamb...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday 18. April 2010 00.49.28 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: Except I think Chris wants to be able to specify a directory, since other applications would probably want to keep using /tmp for TMPDIR. alias cabal=TMPDIR=/foo cabal Ooohhh, forgot you