ghc searches for package libraries relative to cwd?

[Simon Marlow]

Frederik Eaton wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It seems that ghc is searching for package libraries relative to the
> current directory. Is that the intended behavior? ghci does the same
> thing, by the way.
> 
> $ pwd
> /home/frederik/GSLHaskell2
> $ ghc --make ../test-proc.hs -package GSL 
> Chasing modules from: ../test-proc.hs
> Compiling Main             ( ../test-proc.hs, ../test-proc.o )
> Linking ...
> $ cd ..
> $ ghc --make test-proc.hs -package GSL 
> Chasing modules from: test-proc.hs
> Skipping  Main             ( test-proc.hs, test-proc.o )
> Linking ...
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSGSL-0.5
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

GHC searches for libraries using the library-dirs field of the package.  Try 
doing a 'ghc-pkg field GSL library-dirs' and see if there are any relative 
pathnames in there.


Cheers,
	Simon