Hello, I have a probably very dumb question about how to use Cabal - I'm just starting out with it. If this list isn't the right place to post the question, please let me know. It seems like when I add an Extra-libraries field to a cabal source package description: Name: LibraryFoo ... Library Extra-libraries: Bar this has the effect that when loading package LibraryFoo in ghci, ghci will necessarily try to open a corresponding Bar.so/.dll/.dylib file:
ghci -package LibraryFoo Loading package LibraryFoo-0.1 ... <command line>: can't load .so/.DLL for: Bar (dlopen(Bar.dylib, 10): image not found)
What I want to do is statically link LibraryFoo against Bar before Cabal installs the package, (so that, for instance, I can run ghci without a bunch of command line linking arguments and don't need to have Bar around anymore), and I have a Bar.o file for just such a purpose. Is there a way to get Cabal to do this? Thanks for your help, Ryan Wisnesky