[Haskell-cafe] [cabal] How to deal with build-depency that not under cabal's control?

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com> [2009-06-14 18:48:26+0800]
> My gtk2hs is install manually, `configure && make && make install`. So

It's okay.

> when I add gtk to build-dependency, it tells me
> Setup.hs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> gtk -any

Installation of gtk2hs registers these packages for you.
Again, check `ghc-pkg list gtk`. If you installed gtk2hs, it must be
there. If you, say, upgraded your ghc after you installed gtk2hs, you
have to reinstall gtk2hs. 

> How to register my manual-installed gtk2hs to cabal?
> 
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Roman Cheplyaka<roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
> > * Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com> [2009-06-14 17:30:33+0800]
> >> Hi,
> >>   I use gtk2hs in linux. Well, I have no idea how to install gtk2hs by
> >> cabal, but my program needs it, and I want my program cabalized. So
> >> how to do this?
> >> Thanks.
> >
> > gtk2hs consists of several cabal packages, e.g. gtk, glib and so on.
> > (See `ghc-pkg list`)
> > Specify those of them you need as dependencies in cabal file.
> >
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