Ketil Malde wrote:
GHC puts the C library (-lafi) *before* Haskell library (-lHSfmi-0.0) that refers to it. Redoing the collect2 command but moving -lafi last does, in fact, work. Also, specifying extra-libraries in the cabal package works, as long as they are specified in the correct order.
The remaining question is whether inserting command line specified libraries this early is a good choice. Perhaps one option that appears harmless is to specify it multiple times?
The idea is that a package should be self-contained; that is, it should include any external libraries that it depends on in its extra-libraries field. If you follow this rule, then everything should work. Specifying a library multiple times might work, but it would slow down linking, so I'd like to avoid it if possible. Cheers, Simon