Hi Mark,
My build process takes the tarball as input – at the moment I am either
collecting the tarball from
Hackage or manually building it from the repo sources.
I configure with --prefix.
My main concern with the current installers is that they don’t appear to
support –destdir
If you don't use the Haskell Platform source repo to produce distributions
or installers... you can skip this.
Currently, the platform is built via a twisty maze of scripts and short
Haskell programs. It is further complicated by having to run in various
phases each possibly in a different executi