[Haskell-cafe] cabal install oddities

[Tycho Andersen]

Hi all,

I'm having some strange issues with cabal install. Some packages
installed via `cabal install $foo` are failing for strange (and
seemingly unrelated) reasons, but install just fine when I do
something like:

  cabal unpack network
  cd network
  cabal configure
  cabal install

Below is some sample output from a failing package:

ps168825:~/playground$ cabal install network
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring network-2.4.1.2...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler, --with-gcc
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/tmp/network-2.4.1.2-28534/network-2.4.1.2':
configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details
Failed to install network-2.4.1.2
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
network-2.4.1.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
ps168825:~/playground 1$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.16.0.2
using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library 
ps168825:~/playground$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.6.2

/tmp/network-* doesn't exist (which is why I tried unpack, but
unfortunately that succeeds).

Any thoughts on how I can debug this?

Thanks,

\t