Installer has hard-coded path /usr/bin/strip

[YitzGale]

On some systems, strip may not be located in /usr/bin. And even if it is, that might not be the version of strip we need to use, e.g., in a virtual hosting environment.

See, for example,  this blog post about installing GHC on Dreamhost.

It seems that GHC ought to locate strip using $PATH, or some other mechanism that can be configured.

[YitzGale]

To be more clear, the problem described in the blog post occurred while trying to install the binary build of GHC 6.10.4 for x86_64.

[igloo]

Ah, I was confused as to where this path was hard coded at first, but it turns out it's in the Cabal setup-config files. I guess we'll have to override this in ghc-cabal.

[duncan]

So is the problem that we're configuring on one machine (the bindist builder) and then installing on another (the target)? So paths from the builder end up in the config and do not match on the target.

Strictly speaking that's not a supported mode of operation for Cabal. It supports building an installable image on one machine and installing and registering that on another.

[igloo]

Fixed in HEAD and 6.12 by:

Sun Nov  8 12:02:04 GMT 2009  Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
  * Tell ghc-cabal what strip program to use