<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:35 AM, harry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:voldermort@hotmail.com" target="_blank">voldermort@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">$ ghc-pkg check --package-db=~/cabal<br>
ghc-pkg: ~/cabal: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)<br>
$ ls ~/cabal<br>
package.cache<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yet another reason to avoid ~... it's (a) only expanded by the shell, and (b) not reliably expanded even by the shell if it's not the very start of a word (as here where it is after =). Use $HOME instead.</div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div>
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