> > From what I gathered the v2-install target is largely unusable for
> > installing packages outside of .cabal tree. At least neither I nor
> > FreeBSD maintainer found a way to leverage that. Hence the manual
> > install flow.
>
> I probably don't know all the subtleties, but when I run
> "cabal v2-install", I get a nice set of files under
> ~/.cabal/ghc-XXX/git-annex-XXX, including the man pages and all three
> needed binaries. I would guess that just copying those files to the
> destination would do the trick for most cabal executable packages, but
> I haven't actually tried it. Maybe it's better to be cautious.
I mean ~/.cabal/store/ghc-XXX/git-annex-XXX.
Also forgot to mention the following git-annex patch (already reported
upstream) is needed if anyone does want to experiment with using cabal
v2-install to get git-annex man pages.
diff --git a/Build/Mans.hs b/Build/Mans.hs
index 9fb29d4a3..672dcd71c 100644
--- a/Build/Mans.hs
+++ b/Build/Mans.hs
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ buildMans = do
if (Just srcm > destm)
then do
r <- system $ unwords
- [ "./Build/mdwn2man"
+ [ "perl"
+ , "Build/mdwn2man"
, progName src
, "1"
, src
