Thanks Pieter and Paulo, that solved the problem perfectly. And I'm not surprised you stumbled upon this while installing Yesod, that's what I was doing too ;).
Michael On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Paulo Tanimoto <ptanim...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
