Remaining bugs in Cabal under Windows

Graham Klyne GK at ninebynine.org
Tue Aug 17 07:19:06 EDT 2004


At 10:20 17/08/04 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >    - The package uses (getEnv "HOME") to get the path
> > to home directory. The variable isn't present in plain
> > Command prompt under Windows.
>
>Agreed.  I need to know the equivalent of $HOME for GHC too, so that GHC
>can keep a per-user package database.

On my Windows XP system, its:

HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\Graham

#g


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