[Haskell-cafe] Haskell plugin dynamic linking issue

[Albert Y. C. Lai]

On 2017-04-11 03:20 AM, Lana Black wrote:
>> cabal configure
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring cabal-bug-0.1...
> cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
> * Missing C library: HSrts-ghc8.0.2
> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
> provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
> already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags
> --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.
>
> However, that doesn't prevent cabal build from succeeding, and now I
> have a shared library linked to RTS.

[...]

> However, if I run cabal build without calling cabal configure first, the
> latter fails and the build process is stopped at that point. This also
> prevents me from building my project with stack.

Here is the thing. I cannot reproduce either outcome.