On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Tycho Andersen <ty...@tycho.ws> wrote:
> Below is some sample output from a failing package: > > ps168825:~/playground$ cabal install network > Resolving dependencies... > Configuring network-2.4.1.2... > configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler, --with-gcc > checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > checking for gcc... gcc > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking for suffix of executables... > checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in > `/tmp/network-2.4.1.2-28534/network-2.4.1.2': > configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. > "cabal install" unpacks a package into /tmp in order to build it. My guess is your OS has /tmp mounted noexec. I don't know offhand how you override this in cabal. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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