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

[Mark Stosberg]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:11:32 -0400
Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com> wrote:

> > 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.

The compile completed by using this:

 cabal install darcs --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/lib

It would be nice if "/usr/local/lib" could be automatically used 
for the darcs build on FreeBSD, since it's a standard library path
there.

A little more feedback on the "cabal" system:

- The compile should a status of "1 of 136", which I took was like a
  progress bar, but then when it got to 136, it started the counting
  over again. It actually completed after two round of counting.

- I would like to know if there's a way to run the test suite via cabal,
  as that gives me extra confidence that darcs is working as expected on 
  my platform.

    Mark


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