[Haskell-cafe] haskell platform questions

[wren ng thornton]

Gregory Collins wrote:
> wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> writes:
> 
>> wren at semiramis:~ $ ls /usr/local
>> ls: /usr/local: No such file or directory
>> wren at semiramis:~ $ ls /usr/bin/cabal
>> ls: /usr/bin/cabal: No such file or directory
>>
>> But http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/new/contents.html tells me
>> cabal-install is supposed to ship with the platform...
> 
> It should; there's an installation script that's *supposed* to put a
> symlink into /usr/local/bin/cabal from
> /Library/Frameworks/HaskellPlatform.framework/bin/.
> 
> Binaries should be there regardless.

Looks like they are. Perhaps the script is missing a `mkdir -p 
/usr/local/bin` ?  Does the installer keep a log anywhere? (Looks like 
neither GHC nor HP give installation receipts...)

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~wren