Debian library packaging? or, how to get a single deb to work for hugs/ghc/nhc?

Shae Matijs Erisson shae@ScannedInAvian.com
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:55:48 +0100


In short, I'd like to see some libraries packaged for Debian.
I'm especially interested in seeing the various Gui libs arrive.
My question though, is how to package a lib in such a way that it works for
all three of the packaged Haskell compilers?

Emacs and Python both compile source into bytecode.
GHC needs access to both .hi and .o files
Hugs needs access to source only, I think.

Some libraries are picky about requiring -fglasgow-exts, are there any
libraries which are picky about requiring the lack of -fglasgow-exts?

What other factors are there? What solutions are there?

Thanks,

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