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Judah Jacobson
It looks like the problem occurs when building Haskeline:
Configuring haskeline-0.6.1.5... checking whether to use -liconv... using -liconv. Setup: Missing dependency on a foreign library: * Missing C library: iconv
The problem is that Cabal isn't getting the right argument to look for iconv in (I'm guessing) /usr/local/lib.
yeah, when i installed haskeline via cabal, i had to set the flags to look at these dirs in order to get it built
(Strangely, the Haskeline custom Setup.hs script which detects whether to use iconv is itself succeeding; I should compare the two and see what's different...)
Normally this can be fixed by building Haskeline with the Cabal arguments --extra-include-dirs, --extra-lib-dirs; but I don't know how they can be passed through by to the ghc build system.
Can you please try, with your working ghc-6.10.2: cd into libraries/haskeline of the release candidate source directory, run
runghc Setup configure --user -v3
$ cd libraries/haskeline/ $ runghc Setup configure --user -v3 Configuring haskeline-0.6.1.5... Creating dist (and its parents) searching for ghc in path. found ghc at /home/brad/local/bin/ghc ("/home/brad/local/bin/ghc",["--numeric-version"]) /home/brad/local/bin/ghc is version 6.10.2 looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in /home/brad/local/bin found package tool in /home/brad/local/bin/ghc-pkg ("/home/brad/local/bin/ghc-pkg",["--version"]) /home/brad/local/bin/ghc-pkg is version 6.10.2 ("/home/brad/local/bin/ghc",["--supported-languages"]) Reading installed packages... ("/home/brad/local/bin/ghc-pkg",["dump","--global"]) ("/home/brad/local/bin/ghc-pkg",["dump","--user"]) Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing: ghc-mtl ==1.1.* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkn/uLwACgkQxRg3RkRK91PAvwCgnv4c9zoqPwUZLrvwxkQXJpWu E7gAoJz/BCMyZdjr7/fn/S7kE3EdnmDS =Tg3f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----