HSInstall.Paths

Deployed file location support library for software deployed with the hsinstall utility. Or, really, anything that roughly follows an FHS-like deployment structure.

Documentation

getShareDir :: IO FilePath -> IO FilePath

Get a path to the share directory relative to the binary location. The argument passed here is expected to be the output of getDataDir generated by Cabal at compile time in the Paths_PROJECTNAME module.

Usage:

   import HSInstall.Paths ( getShareDir )
   import Paths_PROJECTNAME ( getDataDir )

   shareDir <- getShareDir getDataDir
 

If your binary is at /foo/bar/usr/bin/BINARY, this library will generate this path: /foo/bar/usr/share/PROJECTNAME