[Haskell] installing streams library

Taral taralx at gmail.com
Sun May 21 19:46:22 EDT 2006


On 5/20/06, Brian Hulley <brianh at metamilk.com> wrote:
> It's strange that with the most advanced programming language in existence
> we're still unable to automate the task of having to manually type a
> sequence of 3 commands at an ancient UNIX command prompt!!! :-)

No, it's not strange. What appears to have been overlooked is that
different people will execute these commands differently:

./configure --prefix=/opt/freeware --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-nls
make
make install DESTDIR=/home/taral/staging

Many people will run "make install" as root but the main compile as
non-root. You can't blindly mix all that together.

-- 
Taral <taralx at gmail.com>
"You can't prove anything."
    -- Gödel's Incompetence Theorem


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