patch applied (cabal): Fix a bug where the destdir prefix got included in the prog prefix and suffix

[Peter Higley]

I didn't like putting prefix and suffix in InstallDirs either.  I was just
following the path of least resistance!  I'll look into moving them out of
there.

Peter

On Feb 8, 2008 12:41 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Fri Feb  8 11:26:13 PST 2008  Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
>  * Fix a bug where the destdir prefix got included in the prog prefix and
> suffix
>  Previously all members of InstallDirs were paths so it was safe to prefix
>  them all with the destdir, but now we've also got these two non-paths, so
>  we have to not apply the prefix to them. Perhaps the program prefix and
> suffix
>  should just be PathTemplates on their own and not part of InstallDirs.
>  Reported by MarcWeber while hacking on Haskell packages for Nix.
>
>    M ./Distribution/Simple/InstallDirs.hs -1 +7
>
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