[Haskell-cafe] Confused about readline/editline

[Martijn van Steenbergen]

Hello café,

I'm trying to write an executable that depends on Yogurt-0.3, readline 
(indirectly) and hint. However, including hint in the build-depends 
field causes cabal to link the executable against editline instead of 
readline. Here is a small test case:

File: Test.cabal

> Name: Test
> Version: 0
> 
> Build-Type: Simple
> Cabal-Version: >= 1.2
> 
> Executable test
>   Main-Is:        Test.hs
>   Build-Depends:  base, Yogurt, hint
>   GHC-Options:    -threaded

File: Test.hs

> module Main where
> 
> import Network.Yogurt
> 
> main:: IO ()
> main = do
>   connect "eclipse.cs.pdx.edu" 7680 (return ())

The example doesn't use any functions from hint, but simply mentioning 
it in the cabal file causes this behaviour. What's going on? How can I 
fix or work around this?

I am able to reproduce this behaviour in two configurations:
* Leopard Intel; cabal-install version 0.6.2, using version 1.6.0.1 of 
the Cabal library; GHC 6.10.1
* Ubuntu; cabal-install version 0.6.2, using version 1.6.0.3 of the 
Cabal library; GHC 6.10.2

Thank you very much in advance,

Martijn.