I am using a recent install of Haskell platform (GHC/GHCi version 7.8.3) in OS X 10.9.5, and have been working through Real World Haskell and last year's CIS194 lectures and exercises.

I attempted to follow the instructions for installing lambdabot (as given by https://wiki.haskell.org/Lambdabot ) via cabal install lambdabot.

After 24 1/2 minutes, the process ended with a little over a dozen error messages apparently tracing to two occurrences of ExitFailure 1:

MonadRandom-0.3.0.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
regex-pcre-0.94.4 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

The remaining messages were from components dependent on one or the other of those two.

The logged failure for regex-pcre-0.94.4 included the following:

Preprocessing library regex-pcre-0.94.4...
Wrap.hsc:148:10: fatal error: 'pcre.h' file not found
#include <pcre.h>
^
1 error generated.
compiling dist/build/Text/Regex/PCRE/Wrap_hsc_make.c failed (exit code 1)

and for MonadRandom-0.3.0.1 included:

Preprocessing library MonadRandom-0.3.0.1...
[1 of 2] Compiling Control.Monad.Random.Class ( Control/Monad/Random/Class.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Random/Class.o )
[2 of 2] Compiling Control.Monad.Random ( Control/Monad/Random.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Random.o )
[1 of 2] Compiling Control.Monad.Random.Class ( Control/Monad/Random/Class.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Random/Class.p_o )
[2 of 2] Compiling Control.Monad.Random ( Control/Monad/Random.hs, dist/build/Control/Monad/Random.p_o )
/Users/joel/.ghc/x86_64-darwin-7.8.3/package.conf.d/package.cache: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

I am at a loss for corrective actions. I would assume that I need to locate the pcre.h header file and put it in the "right place", but was unable to find the location of Wrap_hsc_make.c. And I don't know how to address the non-existence of openBinaryFile in package.cache.

Thanks in advance for any advice on correcting the above problems!

-jn-

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