| Portability | portable |
|---|---|
| Maintainer | cabal-devel@haskell.org |
| Safe Haskell | None |
Distribution.Simple.Program.Find
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Description
A somewhat extended notion of the normal program search path concept.
Usually when finding executables we just want to look in the usual places
using the OS's usual method for doing so. In Haskell the normal OS-specific
method is captured by findExecutable. On all common OSs that makes use of
a PATH environment variable, (though on Windows it is not just the PATH).
However it is sometimes useful to be able to look in additional locations
without having to change the process-global PATH environment variable.
So we need an extension of the usual findExecutable that can look in
additional locations, either before, after or instead of the normal OS
locations.
- type ProgramSearchPath = [ProgramSearchPathEntry]
- data ProgramSearchPathEntry
- = ProgramSearchPathDir FilePath
- | ProgramSearchPathDefault
- defaultProgramSearchPath :: ProgramSearchPath
- findProgramOnSearchPath :: Verbosity -> ProgramSearchPath -> FilePath -> IO (Maybe FilePath)
- programSearchPathAsPATHVar :: ProgramSearchPath -> IO String
Program search path
type ProgramSearchPath = [ProgramSearchPathEntry]
A search path to use when locating executables. This is analogous
to the unix $PATH or win32 %PATH% but with the ability to use
the system default method for finding executables (findExecutable which
on unix is simply looking on the $PATH but on win32 is a bit more
complicated).
The default to use is [ProgSearchPathDefault] but you can add extra dirs
either before, after or instead of the default, e.g. here we add an extra
dir to search after the usual ones.
['ProgramSearchPathDefault', 'ProgramSearchPathDir' dir]
Constructors
| ProgramSearchPathDir FilePath | A specific dir |
| ProgramSearchPathDefault | The system default |
findProgramOnSearchPath :: Verbosity -> ProgramSearchPath -> FilePath -> IO (Maybe FilePath)
programSearchPathAsPATHVar :: ProgramSearchPath -> IO String
Interpret a ProgramSearchPath to construct a new $PATH env var.
Note that this is close but not perfect because on Windows the search
algorithm looks at more than just the %PATH%.