How can I make Cabal search for external programs?

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Published on 2010-04-17T22:27:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 22:33 UTC
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I'm trying to write a Haskell program which requires the output of external programs (such as lame, the mp3 encoder). While declaring dependency on a library is easy in cabal, how can one declare dependency on an executable?

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