[Haskell-cafe] Calling haddock in a portable way

[Gwern Branwen]

On 2008.05.17 21:54:53 +0200, Misha Aizatulin <avatar at hot.ee> scribbled 0.2K characters:
> hello,
>
>   the new version of haddock (2.0.0) needs a new option -B that tells it
> the GHC lib directory. How do I find out the correct value for this option
> in a makefile, so that the makefile stays portable?
>
> Cheers,
>   Misha

Maybe you could do something like call out to a shell and ask it to run 'ghc --print-libdir'? That for me prints to stdout a string like '/usr/lib64/ghc-6.8.2'.

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