[Hackage] #170: pkg-config uses a more general version scheme

[Hackage]

#170: pkg-config uses a more general version scheme
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  Reporter:  duncan  |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect  |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  low     |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal   |      Version:  1.2.2.0
  Severity:  normal  |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  normal  |   Ghcversion:  6.4.2  
  Platform:  Linux   |  
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 From {{{HsOpenSSL.cabal}}}

 {{{
   --PkgConfig-Depends: openssl >= 0.9.7l
   -- We really should use this instead of the configure
   -- script but Cabal 1.2.2.0 can't handle the weird version
   -- scheme of OpenSSL.
 }}}

 For example:

 {{{
 $ pkg-config --modversion openssl
 0.9.8f
 }}}

 Currently Cabal tries to map pkg-config versions to the standard
 {{{Version}}} type which only allows for a sequence of numbers.

 pkg-config uses just strings to represent package versions. It uses code
 lifted from rpm to compare version strings. See the {{{compare_versions}}}
 function in {{{pkg-gconfig-0.22/pkg.c}}} from
 http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.22.tar.gz

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