On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:30:16AM -0000, Hugs wrote:

#49: LDFLAGS and hugs packages on OS X 10.4 The value of the environnment variable LDFLAGS is not used to compile hug's packages. Consequently, make fails to build X11 package (on OS X 10.4.8) [...] My LDFLAGS variable whose value is "-L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/Users/julien/local/lib" has not been used. Simply add -L/usr/X11R6/lib to the gcc command and it compile fine.

This is really an issue between Cabal and the packages. I presume it's expected that LDFLAGS will be used because configure uses it. So should Cabal use LDFLAGS, or should packages that use autoconf add LDFLAGS to ld-options?