Thanks folks for your replies.<br><br>I did learn, from your e-mails and from the cabal documentation (example 9 on page <a href="http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/users-guide/builders.htm">http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/users-guide/builders.htm</a>), how to build a tarball with an executable and LICENSE file, via cabal copy. It would have been nice to include the documentation (user's guide) as well, but I don't know how to get cabal copy to put that into the bundle.<br>
<br>Unfortunately, I don't feel it's of great use to the end user. Now they have a tarball with paths like /usr/local/bin/vintbas and /usr/local/share/doc/vintage-basic-1.0/LICENSE.txt. Untarring it gives a warning and strips the leading /, so it won't untar in root unless you CD to root first. And of course you have to have root access to do that. If you want to install it in your user dir, you'll have to make a substitution for the paths.<br>
<br>You suggested I write my own install script. But certainly this is a common situation, and someone has made a generic install script for this sort of thing?<br><br>As I've said I tried to make a Debian package, folowing two different cabal-to-debian instructions, and neither one worked.<br>
<br>If it is a hurdle for me, I can imagine a lot of people are getting frustrated at trying to distribute their binaries on Linux.<br><br>- Lyle<br>