cabal ignores ld-options?

[Malcolm Wallace]

Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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

Not that Cabal actually supports nhc98 yet...

Regards,
    Malcolm