[Haskell-cafe] OpenSUSE 11.2

[Andrew Coppin]

Daniel Fischer wrote:
> Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 17:52:19 schrieb Andrew Coppin:
>   
>> It also puts the binary in a strange place, but I guess I can live with
>> that...
>>     
>
> Which strange place? By default, it should go to ~/.cabal/bin, I think.
>   

Indeed. You'd expect it to be in some system-wide location, but 
apparently not.

> Anyway, you should add that to your path, put something like
>
>
> if [ -z `/bin/echo ${PATH} | /usr/bin/grep cabal` ]
> then
>     export PATH="/home/andrew/.cabal/bin:$PATH"
> fi
>
> in your .bashrc
>   

Uh... what?

>> Now, hypothetically, I should have a Linux Haskell system, so I can
>> actually compile *anything* that's on Hackage.
>>     
>
> Not really, you'll need to install external libraries (C stuff, mostly) for 
> many packages. But it should be a lot easier than on Windows.
>   

On Linux, it seems you install the development package, rerun Cabal, and 
it it somehow "knows" that the library is installed and how to find in.

On Windows... well, forget it. It'll never work, so you might as well 
not bother trying.