On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:12:10AM +0100, Salvatore Insalaco wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a clean VM running a pretty bare Debian Lenny, I got cabal-install > > working, then did "cabal install darcs". I get this failure, because > > libcurl-dev isn't installed. I think this was a known bug, but I'm not > > sure if it was supposed to be fixed for darcs 2.2. (Obviously to fix it > > I configure -f-libcurl or install libcurl-dev.) > > As far as I know it's impossible to solve it simply in Cabal in a > multi-platform way. We just have to write in installation > instructions that we require libcurl, or to install it with -f > -curl. For Windows (where the libcurl dependency is tricky), I'll > provide more detailed instructions.
I guess I was confused that the "cabal configure" step didn't crash -- that it blithely compiled a large portion of darcs before crashing with what an obscure (relative to "cabal configure") error. > Making HTTP the default is not currently a good idea: [...] Agreed. > I think it will wait for 2.3. No problem. I just figured I'd mention it so Petr can have some panic attacks :-P _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
