On 01/19/2012 02:35 AM, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: > Hi, > > I've uploaded darcs 2.8 beta 3 to hackage. You can install it with > 'cabal install darcs-beta'. > > The only change since beta 2 is to fix a problem with the package > generation. If you managed to install beta 2 despite that problem, then > there's nothing new in beta 3. > > The draft changelog at http://wiki.darcs.net/changes%20since%202.5 is > now mostly complete.
Thanks for your work on this Ganesh. I was previously affected by the packaging problem, and have confirmed that I can now build this beta on FreeBSD 8.1 with GHC 6.10.4. However, it fails to build on Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" with GHC 6.12.1, because it can't find some curses headers. Upgrading cabal-install with "cabal install cabal-install" does not help. Below is the output I'm getting. It refers to "config.log", but I can't find this file below .cabal . I assume there is some curses "-dev" package that needs to be installed, but I'm not sure which one, and the manual suggests no further packages will be required: http://www.darcs.net/manual/Building_darcs.html Mark ### $ .cabal/bin/cabal install darcs-beta Resolving dependencies... Configuring terminfo-0.3.2.3... 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 how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking ncurses.h usability... no checking ncurses.h presence... no checking for ncurses.h... no checking curses.h usability... no checking curses.h presence... no checking for curses.h... no configure: error: curses headers could not be found, so this package cannot be built See `config.log' for more details. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: darcs-beta-2.7.98.3 depends on terminfo-0.3.2.3 which failed to install. haskeline-0.6.4.6 depends on terminfo-0.3.2.3 which failed to install. terminfo-0.3.2.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
