On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Dmitry Malikov <[email protected]>wrote:
> checking whether to use -liconv... setup: Unable to link against > the iconv library. > Failed to install darcs-2.8.4 > cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: > > What is actually going on here? Iconv libraries already installed with > libc6 package. > Running ubuntu, cabal-install-1.16.0.2. Linux distinguishes between runtime and linkable libraries; you probably need to install the libc6-dev package to get the latter. (This is not a Haskell-specific issue; configure is using a C program to test the link.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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