cabal packaging and --libdir

[Simon Marlow]

On 13 September 2005 10:52, Jens Petersen wrote:

> I think a --libdir option is needed in Cabal to help packagers
> that need to specific where libraries are installed.
> 
> For example Fedora Core x86_64 (amd64) arch 64bit libs should be
> installed under $prefix/lib64, whereas cabal assumes $prefix/lib.
> 
> Could a --libdir please be added or is there another way?

I had a proposal for this recently, but it hasn't been implemented yet:

http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2005-August/004232.html

(there are earlier and later messages in that thread).

Cheers,
	Simon