[Haskell-cafe] Win32: cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user ?

[Dmitri O.Kondratiev]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Ryan Yates <fryguybob at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a nice table in the cabal docs that explains how prefix gets used:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.4/html/Cabal/builders.html#simple-paths
>
> For Vista and above C:\Documents and settings\myusername\ is
> C:\Users\myusername.  The equivalent to $HOME on Windows would be
> $USERPROFILE but the syntax of expanding an environment variable is
> going to depend on the shell you are using:
>
> cmd window:  cabal install --prefix=%USERPROFILE% --user
> PowerShell:  cabal install --prefix=${env:USERPROFILE} --user
> msys window:  cabal install --prefix=$USERPROFILE --user
>
> Note that msys does define $HOME and it is a different physical path
> than $USERPROFILE.
>
>
Ryan, thanks!
This win32 $HOME story is clear now.
And why not just use:
"cabal install"
instead of:
"cabal install --prefix=%USERPROFILE% --user"
for win32 platform?
Where in this case "cabal install" root will be?
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