#564: Cabal doesn't use LD options when testing linking ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: igloo | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Cabal-1.8 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by sudish): Replying to [comment:4 duncan]:
It'd be better to use: {{{ --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/lib --extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/include }}}
I'm running into the same problem when trying to build ghc HEAD under OS X. In my case, I have some of the requisite libs under /opt/local/{include,lib} since I use MacPorts to install them. The ghc build system fails to find them for the above reasons. I tried to work around this by adding the following to ~/.cabal/config: {{{ extra-include-dirs: /opt/local/include extra-lib-dirs: /opt/local/lib }}} This seems to have no effect on the build. Does the in-place cabal not look at that config file? More to the point, is there any way to pass in those dirs as defaults for the entire build? I.e., a way to add to ghc's in-place cabal's default search paths? Thanks! -Sudish PS: I do have a very ugly workaround: symlink all required headers and libs into dirs on gcc's default search paths. This is very fragile and error-prone, however, and I would rather not do that. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/564#comment:7 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects