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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Distribution.Simple.Install</title><link href="ocean.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="Ocean" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="quick-jump.css" /><script src="haddock-bundle.min.js" async="async" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.0/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML" type="text/javascript"></script></head><body><div id="package-header"><ul class="links" id="page-menu"><li><a href="index.html">Contents</a></li><li><a href="doc-index.html">Index</a></li></ul><p class="caption">Cabal-3.0.0.0: A framework for packaging Haskell software</p></div><div id="content"><div id="module-header"><table class="info"><tr><th valign="top">Copyright</th><td>Isaac Jones 2003-2004</td></tr><tr><th>License</th><td>BSD3</td></tr><tr><th>Maintainer</th><td>cabal-devel@haskell.org</td></tr><tr><th>Portability</th><td>portable</td></tr><tr><th>Safe Haskell</th><td>None</td></tr><tr><th>Language</th><td>Haskell2010</td></tr></table><p class="caption">Distribution.Simple.Install</p></div><div id="description"><p class="caption">Description</p><div class="doc"><p>This is the entry point into installing a built package. Performs the
 &quot;<code>./setup install</code>&quot; and &quot;<code>./setup copy</code>&quot; actions. It moves files into
 place based on the prefix argument. It does the generic bits and then calls
 compiler-specific functions to do the rest.</p></div></div><div id="synopsis"><details id="syn"><summary>Synopsis</summary><ul class="details-toggle" data-details-id="syn"><li class="src short"><a href="#v:install">install</a> :: <a href="Distribution-Types-PackageDescription.html#t:PackageDescription" title="Distribution.Types.PackageDescription">PackageDescription</a> -&gt; <a href="Distribution-Types-LocalBuildInfo.html#t:LocalBuildInfo" title="Distribution.Types.LocalBuildInfo">LocalBuildInfo</a> -&gt; <a href="Distribution-Simple-Setup.html#t:CopyFlags" title="Distribution.Simple.Setup">CopyFlags</a> -&gt; <a href="Distribution-Compat-Prelude-Internal.html#t:IO" title="Distribution.Compat.Prelude.Internal">IO</a> ()</li></ul></details></div><div id="interface"><h1>Documentation</h1><div class="top"><p class="src"><a id="v:install" class="def">install</a> <a href="#v:install" class="selflink">#</a></p><div class="subs arguments"><p class="caption">Arguments</p><table><tr><td class="src">:: <a href="Distribution-Types-PackageDescription.html#t:PackageDescription" title="Distribution.Types.PackageDescription">PackageDescription</a></td><td class="doc"><p>information from the .cabal file</p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-&gt; <a href="Distribution-Types-LocalBuildInfo.html#t:LocalBuildInfo" title="Distribution.Types.LocalBuildInfo">LocalBuildInfo</a></td><td class="doc"><p>information from the configure step</p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-&gt; <a href="Distribution-Simple-Setup.html#t:CopyFlags" title="Distribution.Simple.Setup">CopyFlags</a></td><td class="doc"><p>flags sent to copy or install</p></td></tr><tr><td class="src">-&gt; <a href="Distribution-Compat-Prelude-Internal.html#t:IO" title="Distribution.Compat.Prelude.Internal">IO</a> ()</td><td class="doc empty">&nbsp;</td></tr></table></div><div class="doc"><p>Perform the &quot;<code>./setup install</code>&quot; and &quot;<code>./setup copy</code>&quot;
 actions.  Move files into place based on the prefix argument.</p><p>This does NOT register libraries, you should call <code>register</code>
 to do that.</p></div></div></div></div><div id="footer"><p>Produced by <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haddock/">Haddock</a> version 2.22.0</p></div></body></html>