On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 22:32 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > * inability to automatically find/generate dependencies on > > external packages like C libraries. Many packages that use FFI > > need to link to non-standard C libs and it's not always obvious > > what packages they need. Of course, specifying external libs is > > not simple since different platforms often call them different > > things, but perhaps we could have some non-binding hint fields. > > Or perhaps we should just try and guess based on the names of > > the libs that need to be linked to (though that doesn't cover > > deps on other programs rather than C libs). > > How about asking the distribution specific package manager program to > which package the library file belongs? However, this requires that the > dependent package is installed on the packaging machine.
Yes, for C libraries it's a pretty good hint. It doesn't help us with dependencies on programs or non-C libs however. Duncan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
