install targets on package building infrastructure
Alastair Reid
alastair@reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk
Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:05:13 +0100
While working with Jens Petersen to improve the redhat packages for greencard,
we came across a problem in the standard install targets in makefiles.
Normally, we want 'make install' to:
build the library
install the library in /usr/lib/whatever (or similar place)
invoke ghc-pkg to tell ghc about the package
When building a package binary though, we only want to do the first two steps
and only perform the third step on the users machine.
What's the preferred way of doing this?
(I figure this has already been solved for ghc and for some non-haskell
packages)
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Alastair