cvs commit: fptools/libraries/Cabal/Distribution Setup.hs Simple.hs fptools/libraries/Cabal/Distribution/Simple Configure.hs

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Thu Jan 6 11:56:41 EST 2005


On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:01:02AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Really?  I'm not sure I always want to copy into
> $(copyprefix)/$(prefix), and even if I do, I can always set
> --copy-prefix appropriately.  Perhaps I missed the rationale, but this
> doesn't seem like an improvement.

It seemed like redundancy for the uses I was aware of, where copyprefix
is the root of a partial image of the whole tree.  Maybe that doesn't
make sense in a world with drive letters.  I won't complain.


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