[GHC] #957: No way to use -lgmp from a non-standard location

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#957: No way to use -lgmp from a non-standard location
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 Reporter:  trangayesi at gmail.com  |          Owner:         
     Type:  bug                   |         Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:  6.6.1  
Component:  Build System          |        Version:  6.6    
 Severity:  normal                |     Resolution:         
 Keywords:                        |     Difficulty:  Unknown
 Testcase:  N/A                   |   Architecture:  x86    
       Os:  FreeBSD               |  
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * summary:  Build failure in Cabal/cabal-setup: -lgmp doesn't honor
              LDFLAGS => No way to use -lgmp from a non-
              standard location

Comment:

 Changed title to reflect the real bug: we don't have configure options to
 select an alternative place to look for `-lgmp` or `gmp.h`.  See the way
 we do this for readline, for example, in
 `libraries/readline/configure.ac`.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/957>
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