Hi Peter,
On 15/06/2014 21:12, Peter Simons wrote:
> you are right: the environment variable $NIX_LDFLAGS ensures that GCC
> can find libz (and other systems libraries), which is why "cabal
> configure" succeeds. But this won't help GHC locate those libraries,
> because it doesn't know about that variable. I guess, we could create a
> wrapper around cabal-install to remedy that issue.
Right - or could it be added to the ghc wrapper? It seems logical for it
to get the same behaviour as gcc, but I still haven't got a good
intuition for how this information naturally flows in nix.
> Anyway, a simple work-around for this problem is to call:
> [...]
Thanks for the workarounds, I'll have a play with them and see which one
works best for me.
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH+=:${self.zlib}/lib
Out of interest, why doesn't nix/nixpkgs set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the
first place?
Cheers,
Ganesh
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