GHC 6.8.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Sat Nov 17 10:22:23 EST 2007


On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 03:02:55PM +0000, C.M.Brown wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way for GHC on OS X to find where it was run from, so that it
> > can find package.conf?
> 
> The command:
> 
> ghc --print-libdir
> 
> should do it.

But the way that knows what to print on unix machines is that ghc is a
shell script wrapper which passes -B<libdir> to the real GHC binary. If
you want to be able to move GHC around then the wrapper can't have the
path hardcoded.


Thanks
Ian



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