[Haskell-cafe] unix-compat and GHC 7.0.2

[Michael Snoyman]

Thanks Pieter and Paulo, that solved the problem perfectly.

And I'm not surprised you stumbled upon this while installing Yesod,
that's what I was doing too ;).

Michael

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Paulo Tanimoto <ptanimoto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Pieter Laeremans <pieter at laeremans.org> wrote:
>> I've got the same problem.
>> I don't have acces to the computer where I've go the  problem (my home mac).
>> But if I remember correctly
>> cabal install unix-compat -V3  yielded more output, the problem
>> was due to lbutil.h, that was not present. I've experienced the same problem
>> on an EC2, with  a redhat fedora, by amazon.
>> On ubuntu I got it working by installing libbsd-dev or something like that.
>> kind regards,
>> Pieter
>> PS : funny thing is, I've stumbled upon the problem when trying to install
>> yesod ;-).
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble compiling unix-compat with GHC 7.0.2. I'm fairly
>>> certain that other users are not running into this, but I'm not sure
>>> what would be wrong on my system. Here's the error I'm getting:
>>>
>>> Resolving dependencies...
>>> Configuring unix-compat-0.2.1.1...
>>> cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library:
>>> * Missing header file: HsUnixCompat.h
>>> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that
>>> provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is
>>> already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the
>>> flags
>>> --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is.
>>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>>> unix-compat-0.2.1.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>>> ExitFailure 1
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>
> I had the same problem and used the same solution.  On Ubuntu, install
> 'libbsd-dev'.  This was the ticket opened by Bas:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4974
>
> Perhaps we should add a note about this in the GHC download page?
>
> Paulo
>