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.)

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