In the past I've had issues with haskeline complaining about libtinfo.so. On my distro-of-choice (ArchLinux) no package actually contains the links
/lib/libtinfo.so -> /lib/libtinfo.so.5 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so -> /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5 so I had to create them myself. No big deal, just a bit irritating. Creating them solved that problem. Today I ran into another problem related to curses: $ stach ghci ... GHCi, version 8.0.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help <command line>: can't load .so/.DLL for: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.1/../../../../lib/libncurses.so (-lncursesw: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) /lib/libncurses.so is apparently a linker script: INPUT(-lncursesw) and AFAIU that means it should go looking for `libncursesw.a` (which I find a little strange). Anyway, I manually moved the linker script out of the way and created the link /lib/libncurses.so -> /lib/libncursesw.so.6 and now `stack ghci` works again. I don't like it though, because the next update of ncurses will overwrite my changes and I have to remember to re-apply them :( - Can someone on this list confirm that my understanding of how "INPUT(-lfoo)" works is correct? - I'm unsure why a distro would use a linker script for something as simple as that; a symbolic link seems to be equivalent, right? - The reliance on each distro providing a proper ncurses package seems to result in stack being a bit more brittle than I really like. Is there any way to fix this? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I would rather use Java than Perl. And I'd rather be eaten by a crocodile than use Java. — Trouser -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "haskell-stack" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to haskell-stack+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to haskell-stack@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/haskell-stack/87lgrde2q2.fsf%40therning.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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