Thanks. Problem solved now! On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 11:38 +0600, Yuri Kashnikoff wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I was trying to install hs-plugins both from sources "$./Setup.lhs >> ..." and with "$cabal fetch&&cabal install" and both failed. >> It always reports that Linker.h is missing. > >> Setup.lhs: Missing dependency on a foreign library: >> * Missing header file: Linker.h >> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that >> provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is >> already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags >> --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is. > > It's a bug in the package that was exposed when Cabal-1.6.0.2 started > checking for header files and C libs. I reported the bug to the package > maintainer at the time of the release of Cabal-1.6.0.2. > > Until the maintainer updates it, the fix is to edit the .cabal file and > simply remove the mention of Linker.h. You can use the new cabal unpack > command: > > cabal unpack plugins > cd plugins-1.4.0 > vi plugins.cabal > cabal install > > Duncan > >
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