"Cabal ignores ld-options?" - 2011 remix

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 09:52 -0500, Ryan Newton wrote:
> Victory!  Thanks!
> 
> Well.. mostly victory ;-).  I've got it in a state where the .cabal
> file rewriting works if "cabal configure" is called separately from
> "cabal build/install" so that the latter reads the modified
> configuration file.

Yikes! Don't actually modify the .cabal file on disk. I meant just
modify the data structure that gets passed around.

> As for portability...  I'm afraid I don't personally do any
> development on Windows.  Presumably the goal is for hackage packages
> to work without requiring Cygwin/make/etc?

Right.

Duncan