hlint defaults to using $bindir/data/hlint.yaml

[juhp]

Not sure when this changed but recent hlint seems to fallback to looking for $bindir/data/hlint.yaml (where bindir is the dir where hlint is located). At least on Linux this is not the right location of course.

I was meaning to come up with a patch, but didn't find time so I thought I better just report it first.

[ndmitchell]

It was a few versions ago when I wanted to be able to run HLint out of a downloaded binary which was not installed but merely extracted to /tmp. It tries the right locations first, so does the extra fallback causes issues?

[juhp]

Ah yeah sorry, I forgot to mention the actual problem or reproducer, doh.
Actually it may never have worked correctly in my case - I think I only tested my builds on the machine where I am building hlint.

The problem is I use a cabal sandbox to build latest hlint (this is not for official Fedora builds but for my Fedora Copr ("ppa") repo), and then install the files by hand - then the embedded datadir points to the sandbox dir and then hlint falls back to $bindir/data/hlint.yaml... Not sure the best way to solve this. I should probably open a cabal RFE too... ;)

[juhp]

https://github.com/fedora-haskell/hlint/blob/master/hlint.spec is the build script - yeah not nice.

[juhp]

Nevermind sorry I think I fixed this now but just doing cabal install --only-dependencies
and doing build and install.

[ndmitchell]

Awesome!