[darcs-users] darcs needs text pkg, which fails to build on GHC 6.8

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Thu Dec 24 07:29:23 UTC 2009


The text library has no ICU dependency. You'll have to figure out  
what's really going on in your build.

On Dec 23, 2009, at 11:12 PM, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:

> A heads up to other darcs devs and users.
>
> text appears to require a C library for unicode.  Cabal isn't much
> help here since it doesn't integrate with the locally installed
> package managers (when present).  The cabal error is that the C
> library "icuuc" is missing.  At least on debian/ubuntu the name is
> libicu-dev.  I suspect this is the case on other platforms as well
> because googling for icuuc was not terribly fruitful.
>
> Does anyone know how our windows users will get this library?
>
> I'm mildly annoyed because I don't recall seeing a heads up about
> bringing in more non-hackage dependencies and now I'm worried about
> our window support.
>
> Back to your regularly schedule darcs-users...
>
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:49:11 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>>>> We can't install text >= 0.6
>>>
>>> I just published text 0.7.0.1, which builds cleanly with 6.8.3 for  
>>> me.
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>> I confirm that text and consequently darcs HEAD build cleanly with  
>> GHC
>> 6.8.3.
>>
>> --
>> Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>
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