Yes. It works this way. Tested in debian and old fedora
Thank you for testing. I have just released bindings-levmar-0.1.0.1 on hackage. It simply replaces pkgconfig-depends with extra-libraries. I hope this solves the installation problems.
Debian maintainer was willing to add pkg-config to lapack package: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-scicomp-devel/2009-September/00... However, he and also Tollef (pkg-config maintainer) believe it's a better idea to add it to upstream package: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.package-management.pkg-config/346 Unless you think that extra-libraries is a good long term solution, I'll still investigate on how to add pkg-config generation to configuration scripts and try to send a sugestion with a patch to maintainers of libraries wrapped in bindings-*. Although I don't know exactly how that patch should exactly be... Best, Maurício