On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 00:11 +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to get cabal to link an object file with a library.

Do you mean you want to link to an existing C library? You don't need ld-options for that of course, just extra-libraries (and maybe extra-lib-dirs).

I tried naming it in an ld-options: line, but it didn't show up in the arguments to 'ld'. Is this the correct behaviour?

For a bug report like this it's much more helpful if you give more detail on exactly what you did, exactly what happened and what you were expecting. In this case for example you could include the output of runghc Setup.hs build -v so you and we could see exactly how cabal is calling ghc/ld/whatever. The ld-options are passed to ghc when it links an executable and they also get included in library package registration information. Duncan