2011/7/20 Henning Thielemann <lemm...@henning-thielemann.de>

> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Комар Максим wrote:
>
>> I want to install package NetSNMP:
>>
>>> cabal install NetSNMP
>>>
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> Configuring NetSNMP-0.1.6...
>> cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
>> * Missing C library: netsnmp
>>
>> Package net-mgmt/net-snmp already installed:
>>
>>> pkg_info | grep snmp
>>>
>> net-snmp-5.5_4      An extendable SNMP implementation
>>
>
> As Cabal tells, the developer files are needed, too, and are usually found
> in packages ending on '-dev' or '-devel', that is, in your case
> net-snmp-dev.
>

Ports is build-from-source, so every package is what Linux calls a -dev
package.

The OP might need to make sure that cabal knows to look in /usr/local for
libraries.

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