- severity changed from normal to major
Followup: even with this patch, using $PREFIX does not work: a directory structure gets created in $PREFIX, but there is no config file, which results in this pain:
: nr@homedog 5523 ; cabal install -v graphmod /usr/bin/ghc --numeric-version looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in /usr/bin found package tool in /usr/bin/ghc-pkg /usr/bin/ghc-pkg --version /usr/bin/ghc --supported-languages Reading installed packages... /usr/bin/ghc-pkg list Warning: No remote package servers have been specified. Usually you would have one specified in the config file. cabal: There is no package named graphmod : nr@homedog 5524 ;