./configure --with--ffi-libraries: ld cannot find libffi in a non-standard location
This ticket is to continue work on comment 19 to ticket #5743 (closed).
The issue is only relevant if you wish to use a system provided libffi rather than the in-tree libffi.
PHO's commenthttp://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5743#comment:19:
- .. If I understand this correctly, rts/libs.depend contains only -l flags so -L$(FFILibDir) won't be passed to the linker.
Apart from that, $(rts_LD_OPTS) seems to be ignored too.
igloo's comment http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5743#comment:21:
- .. I think we only use rts_LD_OPTS when calling ld directly.
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| Trac field | Value |
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| Version | 7.7 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Build System |
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| CC | PHO |
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