https://github.com/quchen/cabal-install-bin
Install binary packages in a temporary Cabal sandbox
https://github.com/quchen/cabal-install-bin
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Install binary packages in a temporary Cabal sandbox
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/quchen/cabal-install-bin
- Owner: quchen
- Created: 2015-01-08T23:06:11.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-12-11T22:31:16.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-24T10:38:47.508Z (3 months ago)
- Language: Shell
- Homepage:
- Size: 224 KB
- Stars: 16
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
Install binary packages in a temporary Cabal sandbox
====================================================
Motivation
----------
A common task to use Cabal for is to install binary packages. In order not to
pollute the global package space, this is often done in a sandbox. This small
script automates this process for packages that support it.
More accurately, the script does the following:
1. Create a temporary directory
2. Initialize a Cabal sandbox
3. Build the desired binaries. Link statically, build with minimal profiling
overhead (no profiling, no shared libs, no Haddock).
4. Install the binaries to `$HOME/.cabal/bin`
5. Delete temporary directory
Usage
-----
`cabal-install-bin (package)+`
Programs tested with
--------------------
This process does obviously only work for relocatable binaries. The most common
non-relocatable types of binaries are dynamically linked ones and those that
need external data files. That said, many binaries I've installed for myself
over the years were relocatable. Check whether the process worked after
building!
### Successful
Program | `--version` | package name
----------|-------------|-------------
C2Hsc | 0.6.4 | c2hsc-0.6.5
Cabal | 1.22.0.0 | cabal-install-1.22.0.0
GHC Core | n/a | ghc-core-0.5.6
HLint | 1.9.15 | hlint-1.9.15
HsColour | 1.20 | hscolour-1.20.3
Pandoc | 1.13.2 | pandoc-1.13.2
### Status unknown
These programs were unsuccessfully built in the past, but due to multiple
patches in the meantime they might work as intended now. I'll gladly take
user reports on success or failure.
Program | package name | Problem
----------|---------------|-----------------------------------------------------
Alex | alex-3.1.4 | (may work, needs testing)
Happy | happy-1.19.5 | (Reported to work on OSX with GHC 7.8.3)