"Cabal ignores ld-options?" - 2011 remix

30 Jan 2011

      Oops, sent this to Cafe but it's more appropriate for cabal-devel.

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From: Ryan Newton 
Date: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:54 AM
Subject: "Cabal ignores ld-options?" - 2011 remix
To: Haskell Cafe 

Hi cafe,

I am trying to link a ".a" file built by a separate makefile into my
library.  GHC has no problem with it, but I need to convince cabal to do it
for the package to be hackage-friendly.  There's a thread about this back in
2007:

   http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2007-April/000507.html

Is there a method for this now, or is the state of affairs the same as
before?

Thanks,
  -Ryan