2011/7/20 Henning Thielemann <lemming@henning-thielemann.de>
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Комар Максим wrote:
I want to install package NetSNMP:
cabal install NetSNMP
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring NetSNMP-0.1.6...
cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
* Missing C library: netsnmp

Package net-mgmt/net-snmp already installed:
pkg_info | grep snmp
net-snmp-5.5_4      An extendable SNMP implementation

As Cabal tells, the developer files are needed, too, and are usually found in packages ending on '-dev' or '-devel', that is, in your case net-snmp-dev.

Ports is build-from-source, so every package is what Linux calls a -dev package.

The OP might need to make sure that cabal knows to look in /usr/local for libraries.

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