On 2007-10-12, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 12, 2007, at 17:38 , Lihn, Steve wrote: > >> Installing: --prefix=~/cabal/lib/haddock-0.8/ghc-6.4 & > > This looks suspicious to me: the "~" metacharacter is only > understood by shells, and only in certain circumstances (i.e. only at > the beginning of a "word", not after a "="),
This likely the problem, but a reasonable shell (i.e. zsh) will expand in this circumstance: % echo --foo=~ --foo=/home/wnoise -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe