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

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Dmitry Malikov <malikov.d.y at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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>wrote:
>
>> checking  whether  to  use  -liconv...  setup:  Unable  to  link  against
>>  the  iconv  library.
>>
>> What is actually going on here? Iconv libraries already installed with
>> libc6 package.
>>
>
>  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
>
> But libc6-dev is already the newest version.
>

Then you'll have to check config.log (this probably means doing the build
manually with "cabal unpack darcs"  and then running "cabal install"
without a package name from the directory with the darcs.cabal file) to see
what's going wrong.

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