On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Pieter Laeremans <pie...@laeremans.org> wrote: > I've got the same problem. > I don't have acces to the computer where I've go the problem (my home mac). > But if I remember correctly > cabal install unix-compat -V3 yielded more output, the problem > was due to lbutil.h, that was not present. I've experienced the same problem > on an EC2, with a redhat fedora, by amazon. > On ubuntu I got it working by installing libbsd-dev or something like that. > kind regards, > Pieter > PS : funny thing is, I've stumbled upon the problem when trying to install > yesod ;-). > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having trouble compiling unix-compat with GHC 7.0.2. I'm fairly >> certain that other users are not running into this, but I'm not sure >> what would be wrong on my system. Here's the error I'm getting: >> >> Resolving dependencies... >> Configuring unix-compat-0.2.1.1... >> cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library: >> * Missing header file: HsUnixCompat.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. >> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: >> unix-compat-0.2.1.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: >> ExitFailure 1 >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Michael >> >>
I had the same problem and used the same solution. On Ubuntu, install 'libbsd-dev'. This was the ticket opened by Bas: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4974 Perhaps we should add a note about this in the GHC download page? Paulo _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe