#9498: GHC links against unversioned .so files -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Kritzefitz | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Compiler (FFI) | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Debian Operating System: Linux | Architecture: Type of failure: Other | Unknown/Multiple Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by thomie): You're right! curl's cabal file would still contain `extra-libraries: curl`. But when installing curl, whoever decides the parameters for the ghc-pkg file (either cabal or ghc, I don't know at the moment) could ask the linker which version it actually found, and write `extra-libraries: :libcurl.so.<version>` to the ghc-pkg file. That should work (at least on linux). -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9498#comment:7 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler