Re: cabal ignores ld-options?

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 13:57 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Duncan Coutts wrote:

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Perhaps there should be a mechanism to include arbitrary extra .o files into the archive that cabal produces, but remember that this would be totally ghc-specific. No other Haskell implementations use archives or can necessarily link arbitrary .o files.

*cough* nhc98

Oh ok :-). So some (at least nhc, ghc and jhc) support linking to arbitrary .o files. So is this a feature that should be exposed through cabal do you think? I'm pretty sure there are implementations which do not support this: yhc and hugs, though I don't really know how hugs or yhc's ffi support works so I might be wrong about that.

Not that Cabal actually supports nhc98 yet...

We'll gladly accept patches :-) Duncan