ANN: Cabal 0.5 (GHC 6.4 release candidate)

[Seth Kurtzberg]

Isaac Jones wrote:

>Jens Petersen <petersen at haskell.org> writes:
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>>Isaac Jones wrote:
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>>>This is a release-candidate for 0.6, which will be in GHC 6.4.
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>>Thanks for the rc release. :)
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>>It would be nice if cabal allowed more choice or configuration
>>of install directories IMHO: in particular libdir comes to
>>mind.  
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>Do you mean more control over where the libraries themselves end up?
>Of course, you can use --prefix during configure, but then cabal will
>still put things under that prefix in a pre-determined place.  You're
>asking for control over exactly where the libraries go?
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>>Also it would be nice if the default was multilib aware (eg for
>>Fedora on x86_64 libdir is "/usr/lib64").
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>I don't quite understand.  This is for systems where you might have
>mixed 32 and 64 bit binaries?  You want cabal to detect this situation
>and compile two binaries, or you would just like it to detect the
>default libraries location on that target?
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I'm not sure what Isaac meant, but to me it would be the ability to 
specify one or the other.  Building two versions would be nice, but then 
if there were a problem with one build you might not complete the second 
build, which might be the one you really want.

An argument to configure is the logical thing to me.

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>>Personally I would like to see ghc libraries at least installed
>>under ghc's libdir since their ABI depends on the version of ghc
>>they are built with, ie typically under $libdir/ghc-$ghc_version/
>>rather than $libdir.
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>You mean by default, without using the --prefix flag?  That seems
>pretty reasonable.
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>peace,
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>  isaac
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