[Haskell-cafe] Problem with cabal install zlib

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 11:17 +0100, Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
> I have the same issue with zlib:
> 
> /usr/bin/hsc2hs --cc=/usr/bin/gcc --ld=/usr/bin/gcc --cflag=-D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=610 --lflag=-lz --cflag=-I/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/610/usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/bytestring-0.9.1.4/include --cflag=-I/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/610/usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/base-4.1.0.0/include --cflag=-I/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/610/usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/include --lflag=-L/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/610/usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/bytestring-0.9.1.4 --lflag=-L/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/610/usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/base-4.1.0.0 --lflag=-L/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/610/usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/integer-0.1.0.1 --lflag=-L/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/610/usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/ghc-prim-0.1.0.0 --lflag=-L/Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/610/usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4 --lflag=-lm --lflag=-lffi --lflag=-lgmp --lflag=-ldl -o dist/build/Codec/Compression/Zlib/Stream.hs Codec/Compression/Zlib/Stream.hsc
> Only one output file may be specified

Ok so you don't seem to get the weird '*' character, but it's still not
obvious why we're getting that message. There does not appear to be
multiple output files specified.

According to the hsc2hs code it only accepts -o and --output flags as
specifying outputs.

> And I'm getting the same with unix-compat-0.1.2.1:

> and with haskeline:

> So I guess the issue is with everything that is using hsc2hs?

Looks that way.

Duncan