Oops, sent this to Cafe but it's more appropriate for cabal-devel.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ryan Newton</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rrnewton@gmail.com">rrnewton@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:54 AM<br>Subject: "Cabal ignores ld-options?" - 2011 remix<br>To: Haskell Cafe <<a href="mailto:haskell-cafe@haskell.org">haskell-cafe@haskell.org</a>><br><br><br>Hi cafe,<br>
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I am trying to link a ".a" file built by a separate makefile into my library. GHC has no problem with it, but I need to convince cabal to do it for the package to be hackage-friendly. There's a thread about this back in 2007:<br>
<br> <a href="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2007-April/000507.html" target="_blank">http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2007-April/000507.html</a><br><br>Is there a method for this now, or is the state of affairs the same as before?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888"> -Ryan<br><br>
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