On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Mark Stosberg<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:57:21 +0100 > Eric Kow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Mark, >> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 17:43:29 +0100, Eric Kow wrote: >> > > haskeline-0.6.1.6 failed during the configure step. The exception was: >> > > exit: ExitFailure 1 >> >> Do you get any more details when you 'cabal install haskeline'? >> If not, how about 'cabal install -v haskeline?' > > Thanks for the support, Eric. > > It appears to be dying because the external "iconv" library cannot be > found. According to the FreeBSD package database, I have "libiconv-1.11" > installed. Do I need a newer version? > > If so, it would be nice to get a diagnostic message more directly to > that effect when the process fails.
Hi Mark, The cabal-install program has an annoying feature that if a dependency fails to build, it sometimes still tries to build the original package. So I'm willing to bet that a diagnostic message was output, but was buried in the middle of the darcs build output. Running "cabal install haskeline" should provide a better error message. To get it working, you may need to provide extra arguments to point to iconv's headers/library files, e.g. cabal install haskeline --extra-include-dirs=/usr/include --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/lib If that doesn't work, file a bug on http://trac.haskell.org/haskeline or send a message to the haskeline email list (linked from the trac page). Best, -Judah _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
