Hi Duncan, Just forwarding this to you in case it's of any interest.
Mark: perhaps there are things to file against Cabal's bug tracker? http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki Thanks :-) Eric On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 16:19:37 -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote: > > > The cabal-install program has an annoying feature that if a dependency > > > fails to build, it sometimes still tries to build the original > > > package. So I'm willing to bet that a diagnostic message was output, > > > but was buried in the middle of the darcs build output. > > > > > > Running "cabal install haskeline" should provide a better error > > > message. To get it working, you may need to provide extra arguments > > > to point to iconv's headers/library files, e.g. > > > > > > cabal install haskeline --extra-include-dirs=/usr/include > > > --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/lib > > > > A variation of that worked: > > > > cabal install haskeline --extra-include-dirs=/usr/include > > --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/lib > > > > Perhaps the inclusion of "/usr/local/lib" can be automated on FreeBSD in > > the future? > > > > Now that I'm past that I'm getting a notice about "curl" being missing, > > which should be straightforward to address. I'll post further notes to > > darcs-users once this compile/install is done. > > The compile completed by using this: > > cabal install darcs --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/lib > > It would be nice if "/usr/local/lib" could be automatically used > for the darcs build on FreeBSD, since it's a standard library path > there. Note: I (Eric) have already responded about the below, saying that this was due to recompiling between library/executable (which will go away with next Cabal, yay!) and that Mark could try cabal test. > A little more feedback on the "cabal" system: > > - The compile should a status of "1 of 136", which I took was like a > progress bar, but then when it got to 136, it started the counting > over again. It actually completed after two round of counting. > > - I would like to know if there's a way to run the test suite via cabal, > as that gives me extra confidence that darcs is working as expected on > my platform. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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