Problems packaging ghc-hgettext

[Jens Petersen]

Hi Philip,

> I'm trying to package Bustle[1], and so I first need to package
> ghc-hgettext and ghc-setlocale as dependencies.

Great!

> but when I try to package ghc-hgettext[3], I get:

>         /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSsetlocale-0.0.3-ghc7.4.2
>         collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Maybe you have a user install of setlocale too?

What does "ghc-pkg list setlocale" say?

You can try  "ghc-pkg unregister setlocale" to uninstall the user library.

Ideally Cabal should prefer the system library in this case but I think it doesn't.

Hope that helps, Jens