[darcs-users] [little bit OT] How to pass additional parameters on buildbot to cabal configuring darcs?

[Matthias Kilian]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 01:08:24PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> I do have libcurl installed on OpenBSD buildbot, yet cabal configure
> fails with:
> Setup: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries:
> * Missing C libraries: curl, curl
> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system packages that
> provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev" versions). If the libraries
> are already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the
> flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they are.

Funny, I've the exact problem with ghc-HEAD and libiconv ;-)

Tweaking the build master configuration may be an option (for darcs,
not for ghc), but I really think cabal is flawed in that it doesn't
allow some overrides in the environment (like autoconf generated
configure scripts do).

Ciao,
	Kili