Default prefix for Cabal on Windows

[Ross Paterson]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 04:46:18PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > Simon Marlow wrote:
> > 
> >> Ok, so $(ProgramFiles) is determined by the registry.  Taking into
> >> account comments so far, I think we have:
> >> 
> >>   prefix = $(ProgramFiles)\Haskell\$(PackageName)-$(Version)
> >>   libdir = $(prefix)\$(Compiler)-$(Version)
> >>   bindir = $(prefix)\bin
> >> 
> >> these are only defaults - users & packagers are free to change them.
> 
> Slight modification after Brian's comments: if the package is an
> executable, then 
> 
>   prefix = $(ProgramFiles)\$(PackageName)-$(Version)
> 
> (i.e. only libraries on under $(ProgramFiles)\Haskell).

The default value of $(prefix) under Unix recently silently changed from
/usr/local to /usr/local/$(Compiler)-$(Version).  I'm not sure that's
the right thing: it's incompatible with the FHS and with autoconf, and
puts executables in a place that's not on my path.