there is a way to override the .tix path with HPCTIXFILE

Under the "Caveats and Shortcomings of Haskell Program Coverage" section, it says:

There is no way to change the name of the .tix file generated, apart from renaming the binary.

However, specifying HPCTIXFILE as an environment variable when running the executable program does change the output path of the .tix file.

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mentioned in issue #1853

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Thanks. It seems HPCTIXDIR isn't documented either.

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In [changeset:"ee7241cf/ghc"]:

Author: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@cs.stanford.edu>
Date:   Thu Mar 23 21:03:40 2017 -0400

    Document hithertoo undocumented HPCTIXFILE option.

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