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

[Daan L. <daa...@xs...>]

Gour wrote:
>> 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.

You don't have to do that. If you give "--prefix" to configure it will work fine.
You can also give "--libdir" explicitly. When you specify "--help" at the end of
the options, you get a nice overview of all settings that will be used.

All the best,
  Daan.

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> ./configure --prefix=/usr/sandbox --help
usage:
    ./configure [options]

options: [defaults in brackets]
  --help                 show this information
  --hc=<program>         the haskell compiler [ghc]
  --hcpkg=<program>      package compiler [ghc-pkg]
  --package-conf=<file>  optional local package configuration []
  --version=<version>    library version [0.6]

install options:
  --prefix=<dir>         platform independent install directory [/usr/sandbox]  <--- LOOK HERE
  --exec-prefix=<dir>    platform dependent install directory [<prefix>]
  --libdir=<dir>         library files install directory [<exec-prefix>/lib]	 <--- AND HERE
  --enable-strip         remove symbols from the libraries [no]
  --enable-upx           compress the dynamic libraries with upx [no]

documentation options:
  --username=<name>      username on sourceforge [dleijen]
  --haddock=<program>    haddock documentation tool [haddock]

wxwindows options:
  --wx-lib=<library>     wxWindows library [/usr/local/lib/wx_base-2.5.dll]
  --wx-toolkit=<name>    wxWindows gui toolkit [MSW]
  --wx-config=<program>  wxWindows configure script (must be the first option!)
                         [wx-config]

platform options:
  --dllext=<extension>   dynamic link library extension [.dll]
  --libprefix=<prefix>   library prefix []
  --extra-ld-opts=<opts> extra link options []
  --with-msc             compile wxWindows and wxc with microsoft vc++ [no]
  --wxc-libname=<name>   wxc library name [wxc]