On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Matthias Kilian<k...@outback.escape.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 01:08:24PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: >> I do have libcurl installed on OpenBSD buildbot, yet cabal configure >> fails with: >> Setup: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries: >> * Missing C libraries: curl, curl >> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system packages that >> provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev" versions). If the libraries >> are already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the >> flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they are. > > Funny, I've the exact problem with ghc-HEAD and libiconv ;-) > > Tweaking the build master configuration may be an option (for darcs, > not for ghc), but I really think cabal is flawed in that it doesn't > allow some overrides in the environment (like autoconf generated > configure scripts do).
I believe you can tell Cabal about extra directories by adding the following lines to ~/.cabal/config : extra-include-dirs: /opt/local/include extra-lib-dirs: /opt/local/lib Does that do what you want? -Judah _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
