On 03/03/2013 10:56 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Dmitry Malikov <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    checking  whether  to  use  -liconv...  setup:  Unable  to  link
     against  the  iconv  library.
    Failed  to  install  darcs-2.8.4
    cabal:  Error:  some  packages  failed  to  install:

    What is actually going on here? Iconv libraries already installed
    with libc6 package.
    Running ubuntu, cabal-install-1.16.0.2.


Linux distinguishes between runtime and linkable libraries; you probably need to install the libc6-dev package to get the latter. (This is not a Haskell-specific issue; configure is using a C program to test the link.)

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But libc6-dev is already the newest version.

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