I wonder if this package.conf hacking would be a good topic for a GHC wiki page? Somewhere here: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org] On | Behalf Of Duncan Coutts | Sent: 05 April 2007 23:44 | To: Chris McCraw | Cc: Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Linking and Including nonstandard paths | | On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:20 -0500, Chris McCraw wrote: | | > 1) I'd like to embed an additional library search directory in ghc so | > that it does the equivalent of -L/path/to/extra/dir every time it's | > used to link something. Unfortunately, our libgmp resides in a nonstandard | > directory and so *every time* someone wants to compile they must | > ghc -L/lusr/gnu/lib ... | > to find -lgmp. | | Modify the library-dirs used by the rts packages to include your extra | linker search path. eg: | | - library-dirs: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6 | + library-dirs: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6, /lusr/gnu/lib | | First, backup ghc's package.conf file just in case... | | Then: | $ ghc-pkg describe rts > rts.package.conf | $ $EDITOR rts.package.conf | $ ghc-pkg update rts.package.conf | | Duncan | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users