Where did my port go?

Kyle Hanson hanooter at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 00:51:08 UTC 2012


To clarify I could use the haskell commands "runhaskell" cabal etc
yesterday. When I restarted my computer it can't find the command so I cant
use where is. The commands disappeared.
On Jul 29, 2012 7:46 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:52:24 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > whereis name
> >
> > will show where the program name is.
>
> And "which <name>" can work similarly, but you need to know the
> name to ask for. If it's not the same as the port name, you need
> to find it out first. This particular Haskell port werks that
> way: There is no "haskell" binary installed by that name. If
> the port installed is a metaport, you need to track some
> references (Makefile or pkg-plist) or check the info in the
> package database at /var/db/pkg.
>
> The port name in question was "hs-haskell-platform", and by
> doing the previously mentioned investigation, it's probably
> the "ghc" or "runhaskell" command. I'm not familiar with
> Haskell, so I can only guess. :-)
>
>
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> Polytropon
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