Re: GHC FFI libraries depend on unversioned SO.

2014-08-21 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 21:16:41 +0200 Sven Bartscher wrote: > Greetings, > > I noticed that libghc-regex-pcre-dev doesn't depend on libpcre6, which > causes it to fail at import. > I tried to fix that and noticed that ghc searches for the unversioned > SO (i.e. libpcre.so instead of libpcre.so.3).

GHC FFI libraries depend on unversioned SO.

2014-08-20 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings, I noticed that libghc-regex-pcre-dev doesn't depend on libpcre6, which causes it to fail at import. I tried to fix that and noticed that ghc searches for the unversioned SO (i.e. libpcre.so instead of libpcre.so.3). Is this normal with GHC or is this just some bug in regex-pcre? If thi