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

[Chris Dornan]

Thanks Daniel and Erlend,

I now have cabal-install working.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: daniel.is.fischer at web.de [mailto:daniel.is.fischer at web.de] 
Sent: 17 April 2010 5:4 PM
To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
Cc: Chris Dornan
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] redirecting cabal-install from /tmp

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