Installing binary tarball fails on Linux

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 08.10.2012, 12:08 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow:
> On 01/10/2012 13:00, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
> > On 01/10/2012 12:05, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >
> >> This probably means that you have packages installed in your ~/.cabal
> >> from a 32-bit GHC and you're using a 64-bit one, or vice-versa.  To
> >> avoid this problem you can configure cabal to put built packages into a
> >> directory containing the platform name.
> >
> > How does one do this? I ran into this problem a while ago and couldn't
> > figure it out:
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12393750/how-can-i-configure-cabal-to-use-different-folders-for-32-bit-and-64-bit-package
> 
> I do this at work where I share the same home dir between several 
> different machines, and my .cabal/config contains
> 
> install-dirs user
>    prefix: /home/simonmar/.cabal
>    bindir: $prefix/bin/$arch-$os
>    -- libdir: $prefix/lib
>    libsubdir: $pkgid/$compiler/$arch-$os
>    -- libexecdir: $prefix/libexec
>    -- datadir: $prefix/share
>    -- datasubdir: $pkgid
>    -- docdir: $datadir/doc/$pkgid
>    -- htmldir: $docdir/html
>    -- haddockdir: $htmldir

any chance of making that the default, at least for libsubdir? I also
stumble over it when I use a i386 schroot to test stuff.

Greetings,
Joachim

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