[darcs-users] cabal install darcs-2.1.98.2 without libcurl-dev

[Trent W. Buck]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:12:10AM +0100, Salvatore Insalaco wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In a clean VM running a pretty bare Debian Lenny, I got cabal-install
> > working, then did "cabal install darcs".  I get this failure, because
> > libcurl-dev isn't installed.  I think this was a known bug, but I'm not
> > sure if it was supposed to be fixed for darcs 2.2.  (Obviously to fix it
> > I configure -f-libcurl or install libcurl-dev.)
> 
> As far as I know it's impossible to solve it simply in Cabal in a
> multi-platform way.  We just have to write in installation
> instructions that we require libcurl, or to install it with -f
> -curl. For Windows (where the libcurl dependency is tricky), I'll
> provide more detailed instructions.

I guess I was confused that the "cabal configure" step didn't crash --
that it blithely compiled a large portion of darcs before crashing
with what an obscure (relative to "cabal configure") error.

> Making HTTP the default is not currently a good idea: [...]

Agreed.

> I think it will wait for 2.3.

No problem.  I just figured I'd mention it so Petr can have some panic
attacks :-P