#740: Allow specifying private C libs to avoid overlinking (but allow static linking) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- See http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Overlinking for a discussion of under and overlinking. In different circumstances, we want both to be able to link to C libs statically and dynamically. For the dynamic case we only want to specify direct C lib dependencies or we end up overlinking. For the static case we must specify all direct and indirect C libs or we will miss libs and get missing symbols. A sensible solution is to follow [http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg- config-guide.html pkg-config] and specify "private" C libs separately from normal public ones. This would require extensions both to .cabal files and package registration files. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/740 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects