[Haskell-cafe] Haskell plugin dynamic linking issue

[Lana Black]

On 13/04/17 18:42, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
> 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.
> 

I dug a bit further, and it looks like the cabal configure error is
somehow related to Gentoo, since I'm only able to reproduce it there.
Otherwise the solution you linked works perfectly.