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On 15/04/15 11:57, Fabien Dubosson wrote:
> A more or less elegant solution to the rpath problem was found in
> a previous thread [1]: Using GHC `-dynload=deploy' flag [3] and a 
> `/etc/ld.so.conf.d/haskell.conf' file which specify the location of
> the shared libraries, e.g. `/usr/lib/ghc-7.6.3/sharedg'. Details in
> [2].

Thanks for all this background info Fabien, it helps get this going.

> This solution was working well for most of the package, I remember
> being able to build pandoc with shared libraries, but sadly not for
> gtk, which has a kind of bootstrapping method that was not working
> with `-dynload=deploy' flag.

One package shouldn't warp the whole package system. One should push
suggestions upstream and they should be accepted if there is technical
merit. In the end there is always the patch approach for rogues.

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        SP
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