[Hackage] #469: Support relocatable packages

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#469: Support relocatable packages
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  Reporter:  duncan         |        Owner:                     
      Type:  enhancement    |       Status:  new                
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:                     
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.6.0.1            
  Severity:  normal         |   Resolution:                     
  Keywords:                 |   Difficulty:  very hard (<1 week)
Ghcversion:                 |     Platform:                     
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Comment (by duncan):

 Note that the mechanism to support relocatable packages can and should
 also be used to let us run programs from the build tree and still enable
 them to find their data files in the build tree.

 The use of environment variables in the current `Paths_pkgname` module
 already allow this use, at least on Unix. We just need to take advantage
 of it by generating wrapper scripts.

 This would also be nice for supporting running programs with runhaskell
 (eg for hugs or ghc).

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