#216: need a way to specify the foreign libraries a package depends on
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Reporter: ross at soi.city.ac.uk | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.6
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0
Severity: major | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: normal
Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: Linux
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Comment (by duncan):
Do we really need this? I'm not sure we do.
We can already specify that we need C libs and headers (and frameworks and
pkg-config packages). Do we also need to be able to specify the native
packages that provide those C libs and headers?
When we make native packages from cabal packages we can derive which other
native packages provide the C libs and headers. For example if we have
`extra-libraries: z` then the cabal->native tool just asks the package
manager which package provides the file `/usr/lib/libz.so`. Obviously this
is system-specific.
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