[Haskell-cafe] trying to build Hackage hoq-0.3

[Vasili I. Galchin]

Let me try Utku. BTW I am running Ubuntu Linux.
Vasya

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Utku Demir <utdemir at gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like the "readline" library(the C one, not the Haskell one) is
> missing on your system. Can you install it via your distributions package
> manager (assuming you're using Linux)?
>
> Like;
>
>  $ sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev    # could be libreadline6-dev
>
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 at 09:22 Vasili I. Galchin <vigalchin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1) ghc version 7.6.3
>>
>> 2) cabal version 1.16.0.2
>>
>> 3) when i run "cabal install",
>>
>>        I receive on stdout :
>>
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> Configuring readline-1.0.3.0...
>> checking for gcc... gcc
>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>> checking for suffix of executables...
>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>> checking for GNUreadline.framework... checking for readline... no
>> checking for tputs in -lncurses... no
>> checking for tputs in -ltermcap... no
>> checking for tputs in -lcurses... no
>> checking for rl_readline_version... no
>> configure: error: readline not found, so this package cannot be built
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>> Failed to install readline-1.0.3.0
>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> hoq-0.3 depends on readline-1.0.3.0 which failed to install.
>> readline-1.0.3.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>> ExitFailure 1
>>
>> 4) I googled Haskell and readline and I found the same error with
>> other Haskell packages like Twitter.
>>
>>
>> How do I resolve my build  readline problem?
>>
>> Vasya
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