[darcs-users] the problems with autoconf

[Karel Gardas]

zooko wrote:
>> I'm not sure, but my view of this is completely different. As far as I
>> know ghc is using gcc for building final executable/library so gcc is
>> required for darcs compilation. Please correct me if I'm wrong! Thanks.
> 
> That's true on (at least some) unix systems, but on Windows ghc comes
> with its own internally-bundled copy of gcc and uses that exclusively.

Aha and is this bundled gcc usable from the command line? i.e. is it
accessible externally? Can you use it for compiling C code? If so, then
try something like:

export CC=<path to ghc bundled gcc>

and rerun configure to see how is it working. IMHO in this case libcurl
test should fail since you will probably need to add some -L for linking
phase...

Karel
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