Re: Booting ghc with system-wide installed Cabal?

2018-07-02 Thread Ben Gamari
Niklas Larsson writes: > Installing stuff system-wide without doing ‘make install’ would break > my expectations for how the build works. Also, how would one return to > a pristine state if it was done that way? > Hmm, I was assuming it would be up to the user to ensure that a compatible Cabal

Re: Booting ghc with system-wide installed Cabal?

2018-07-02 Thread Ben Gamari
Ömer Sinan Ağacan writes: > Currently we have to build Cabal from scratch after every make clean. Ideally > I > should be able to skip this step by installing the correct versions of Cabal > and cabal-install system-wide, but as far as I can see we currently doesn't > support this. Any ideas on

Re: Booting ghc with system-wide installed Cabal?

2018-06-26 Thread Ömer Sinan Ağacan
We don't have to break anyone's workflow. We could introduce an ENV var or a flag for this. > Also, how would one return to a pristine state if it was done that way? By unsetting the ENV var or not using the flag. Ömer Niklas Larsson , 26 Haz 2018 Sal, 10:26 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > > Installing

Re: Booting ghc with system-wide installed Cabal?

2018-06-26 Thread Niklas Larsson
Installing stuff system-wide without doing ‘make install’ would break my expectations for how the build works. Also, how would one return to a pristine state if it was done that way? // Niklas > 26 juni 2018 kl. 08:57 skrev Ömer Sinan Ağacan : > > Currently we have to build Cabal from scratch

Booting ghc with system-wide installed Cabal?

2018-06-26 Thread Ömer Sinan Ağacan
Currently we have to build Cabal from scratch after every make clean. Ideally I should be able to skip this step by installing the correct versions of Cabal and cabal-install system-wide, but as far as I can see we currently doesn't support this. Any ideas on how to make this work? Thanks, Ömer