[Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Sonntag 18 April 2010 00:02:52 schrieb Chris Dornan:
> Hi Everyone,
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> I am trying to get cabal-install to work on a system in which /tmp is
> mounted noexec. Is there any way to configure it to use another
> directory?
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cabal-install gets its temporary directory via 
System.Directory.getTemporaryDirectory, so you can specify some other 
directory via the TMPDIR environment variable (TMP on windows).

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> I would be happy to patch the source and rebuild if need be.

Or that.

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> Thanks in advance,
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> Chris