Locating shared libraries

[Simon Marlow]

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Rich Neswold wrote:
> 
>> Actually, Haskell libraries ought to be placed in /usr/local/lib (or 
>> /usr/pkg/lib for systems that use the Package System: 
>> http://www.pkgsrc.org).
> 
> They should go in $(libdir), as Simon suggests.  If a particular OS 
> wants to override libdir to put them somewhere else, that's then easy to 
> arrange.
> 
> Stefan is also correct that the version of GHC used should be cooked 
> into the name of the shared library.  So a library named foo would be 
> installed as libfoo-ghc661.so.1, or something similar (using the soname 
> would work too).

Good point - we should definitely do that.

Cheers,
	Simon