ghc-paths

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Fri Dec 12 10:50:23 EST 2008


On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:12:58PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Jens Petersen wrote:
> >Are there any plans to include ghc-paths in ghc itself?
> 
> Not at present.  It's more difficult to ship it with GHC than it is to 
> build it post-installation, because it is essentially compiled code that 
> depends on an install-time variable.  Various hairbrained schemes were 
> proposed on cvs-ghc a while back, but I'm not aware of any easy solutions 
> to this problem.

Also, if you're installing with cabal-install then it should be
installed for you automatically.


Thanks
Ian



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