[ ghc-Feature Requests-1084122 ] RPM doesn't support --prefix

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Feature Requests item #1084122, was opened at 2004-12-13 01:54
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>Category: None
>Group: None
>Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: John Skaller (skaller)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Summary: RPM doesn't support --prefix

Initial Comment:
After installing ghc for linux using rpm with
--prefix=/usr/local,
the ghc scriipt incorrectly thinks the libraries etc
are in /usr:

#!/bin/sh
GHCBIN="/usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2/ghc-6.2.2";
TOPDIROPT="-B/usr/lib/ghc-6.2.2";
# Mini-driver for GHC
exec $GHCBIN $TOPDIROPT ${1+"$@"}

After editing, at least the compiler actually starts up :)


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>Comment By: Simon Marlow (simonmar)
Date: 2004-12-13 16:26

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Re-opened.  Any RPM gurus out there who could knock this one
on the head?

Note it's not just the ghc script, there's a couple of other
scripts that need munging (ghci, ghc-pkg, hsc2hs maybe).

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Comment By: John Skaller (skaller)
Date: 2004-12-13 14:54

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I can see it isn't supported :)

However after the change to those two lines, the compiler
works, links libraries, and the resultant binary executes
correctly
(as far as I can tell never having written any Haskell
before .. :)

So why not support it? I had no choice .. my root partition,
containing /usr is 97% full.. :)

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Comment By: Simon Marlow (simonmar)
Date: 2004-12-13 12:54

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You're trying to install the binary RPM using a different
prefix?  That's not supported, I'm afraid.


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