Re: [wxhaskell-users] Re: [Haskell] Announce: wxHaskell 0.6

[Gour <go...@ma...>]

Daan Leijen (daa...@xs...) wrote:

> The documentation is generated from the source, so there is no need to 
> include it.
> Furthermore, the binary releases include documentation nowadays. The doc 
> package
> is just provided for those that don't have haddock or don't want to build 
> the
> documentation themselves.

Oops..excuse me.

And, yes, I was thinking only about source package (not binary) release.

> >I was playing during the 0.30.4 but could not solve sandbox problem since
> >wxhaskell writes into /usr/lib.
> 
> This is easily solved by giving the "--prefix" option to configure. See
> the "building" page on the wxHaskell website. (wxhaskell normally installs
> whereever you install wxWidgets).

The point is that Gentoo has a concept of "safe sandbox" i.e. building process
is done in temporary directory and if successful, it installs (emerges) into
real directory.

wxhaskell installs in /usr/bin (by default), so I had to add an option to allow
wxhaskell ebuild to write directly into /usr/lib which is not safe in case
something goes wrong since files in /usr/lib can be overwritten.

I tried by patching configure & config/config.mk scripts to overcome LIBDIR
entry.

Now I am trying to build ghc-6.2 from source and/or waiting for official 6.2.1
since 6.2 is not usable. Then I'm going to resume Gentoo ebuild.

> ps. Let's take this discussion to "wxhaskell-users".

Yes. It was by mistaken cross-post.

Sincerely,
Gour

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