[Haskell-cafe] Re: Cabal and linking with static libs (.a files)

[Simon Marlow]

Ketil Malde wrote:

> GHC puts the C library (-lafi) *before* Haskell library
> (-lHSfmi-0.0) that refers to it.  Redoing the collect2 command but
> moving -lafi last does, in fact, work.  Also, specifying
> extra-libraries in the cabal package works, as long as they are
> specified in the correct order.
 >
> The remaining question is whether inserting command line specified
> libraries this early is a good choice.  Perhaps one option that
> appears harmless is to specify it multiple times?

The idea is that a package should be self-contained; that is, it should 
include any external libraries that it depends on in its extra-libraries 
field.  If you follow this rule, then everything should work.

Specifying a library multiple times might work, but it would slow down 
linking, so I'd like to avoid it if possible.

Cheers,
	Simon