[darcs-users] darcs 2.3.0: compile fails with GHC 6.8.3 on FreeBSD 6.3

[Mark Stosberg]

> 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

A variation of that worked:

cabal install haskeline --extra-include-dirs=/usr/include --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/lib

Perhaps the inclusion of "/usr/local/lib" can be automated on FreeBSD in the future?

Now that I'm past that I'm getting a notice about "curl" being missing,
which should be straightforward to address. I'll post further notes to
darcs-users once this compile/install is done.

Thanks for your help!

    Mark


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