[Haskell-cafe] building darcs failed (Unable to link against the iconv library)

[Dmitry Malikov]

On 03/03/2013 10:56 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Dmitry Malikov <malikov.d.y at gmail.com 
> <mailto:malikov.d.y at gmail.com>> 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
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But libc6-dev is already the newest version.

-- 
Best regards,
dmitry malikov
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