Merge pull request haskell#9972 from haskell/mergify/bp/3.12/pr-9832

docs: correct references to location of global store (backport haskell#9832)

doc/how-to-build-like-nix.rst

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Nix-style local builds combine the best of non-sandboxed and sandboxed Cabal:
    will rebuild all its dependencies with profiling automatically.
 
 2. Like non-sandboxed Cabal today, builds of external packages are
-   cached in ``~/.cabal/store``, so that a package can be built once,
+   cached in a global store, so that a package can be built once,
    and then reused anywhere else it is also used. No need to continually
    rebuild dependencies whenever you make a new sandbox: dependencies
    which can be shared, are shared.

doc/nix-local-build.rst

@@ -170,8 +170,9 @@ identify the result of a build; if we compute this identifier and we
 find that we already have this ID built, we can just use the already
 built version.
 
-The global package store is ``~/.cabal/store`` (configurable via
-global `store-dir` option); if you need to clear your store for
+Use ``cabal path --store-dir`` to show where your global package store is located.
+This is configurable via the global ``store-dir`` option.
+If you need to clear your store for
 whatever reason (e.g., to reclaim disk space or because the global
 store is corrupted), deleting this directory is safe (``build``
 will just rebuild everything it needs on its next invocation).