Safe Haskell | Safe-Inferred |
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Language | Haskell2010 |
Note [Base Dir] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GHC's base directory or top directory containers miscellaneous settings and the package database. The main compiler of course needs this directory to read those settings and read and write packages. ghc-pkg uses it to find the global package database too.
In the interest of making GHC builds more relocatable, many settings also will expand `${top_dir}` inside strings so GHC doesn't need to know it's on installation location at build time. ghc-pkg also can expand those variables and so needs the top dir location to do that too.
Synopsis
- expandTopDir :: FilePath -> String -> String
- expandPathVar :: String -> FilePath -> String -> String
- getBaseDir :: IO (Maybe String)
Documentation
expandTopDir :: FilePath -> String -> String #
Expand occurrences of the $topdir
interpolation in a string.
expandPathVar :: String -> FilePath -> String -> String #
expandPathVar var value str
replaces occurences of variable $var
with value
in str.
getBaseDir :: IO (Maybe String) #
Calculate the location of the base dir