#262: Check for required C libraries during configure ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: reopened Priority: high | Milestone: Cabal-1.6 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * status: closed => reopened * difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) => easy (<4 hours) * resolution: fixed => Comment: I've built nearly every package on hackage to look for regressions. Two things need fixing: We do not look for `.h` files in the root directory of the package. This breaks `HsPerl5-0.0.6`, `cedict-0.2.5` and `halfs-0.2`. We do not add the include dirs for dependent packages. This breaks `hscurses-1.3.0.2`, `plugins-1.4.0` and `unix-compat-0.1.2.1`. Of these `plugins-1.4.0` is not a good test case because it is broken for other reasons (the .h file it #includes cannot be included on its own). The solution to the first issue should be easy. Just add `.` into the list of include dirs. The second requires copying the code from the pre- processor module where we do the same thing for hsc2hs. Perhaps it's possible to share the code. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/262#comment:15 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects