[commit: ghc] master: Tidy up cross-compiling (109a1e5)

[Stephen Paul Weber]

Somebody claiming to be Simon Marlow wrote:
>On 18/01/13 15:25, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>>Somebody claiming to be Simon Marlow wrote:
>Right, I didn't know that autoconf would automatically look for the tools 
>as <platform>-tool.  I'll update the docs.

Cool.  Looks good.

>>cabal --with-ghc=<cross-ghc> --with-ld=<ld> ...
>>
>Ah, in my case the GHC I built was called ghc-7.7.20130116, so it didn't 
>clash with anything else in .cabal.  You could also configure your cabal to 
>put the arch/os in the directory name.

~/.cabal/bin ?

Nothing in ~/.cabal looks prefixed to me, by default.  Maybe my cabal is 
just old.

Do I need to tell it where to find ghc-pkg, or does that not matter?

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