Bug: wrong ghc location in package.conf

Sven Panne sven.panne at aedion.de
Tue Sep 11 03:17:32 EDT 2007


On Tuesday 11 September 2007 05:58, Conal Elliott wrote:
> In ghc-6.8 20070909, my package.conf contains some strange and incorrect
> paths, such as
>
> haddockInterfaces =
> ["/usr/local/doc/ghc/libraries\\html\\containers\\containers.haddock"],
> haddockHTMLs = ["/usr/local/doc/ghc/libraries\\html\\containers"]
>
> In fact, the installation location is c:/ghc/ghc-6.8.20070909/, not
> /usr/local.  I do have a failed partial ghc build (from darcs HEAD) at
> /usr/local from last week.  Perhaps there's some sticky info somewhere.
> [...]

There was some confusion regarding build paths vs. installation paths in GHC's 
build system. I think I've fixed most of this in the last few days, at least 
I get a nice RPM on Linux now. Could you try to update to the bleeding edge 
and rebuild? It would be good to have some Windows feedback.

Cheers,
   S.


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