[Haskell-cafe] ghc-pkg package.conf files?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 May 21, at 1:37, Galchin, Vasili wrote:

>     I fairly innocuous question ;^). How does ghc-pkg know where are  
> the *package.conf files are located?


The installed ghc-pkg is a shell script, to wit:

> #!/bin/sh
> GHCPKGBIN=/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2/ghc-pkg.bin
> PKGCONF=/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.2/package.conf
> exec $GHCPKGBIN --global-conf $PKGCONF ${1+"$@"}

The user package.conf is constructed from your home directory (~/.ghc/ 
platform-version/package.conf).

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