Hi, building ghc-6.10.3 under x86 solaris eventually failed with: Configuring ghc-bin-6.10.3... cabal-bin: At least the following dependencies are missing: haskeline -any gmake[3]: *** [boot.stage.2] Error 1 I think, haskeline is not build because libiconv is missing: -bash-3.00$ ./Setup configure --prefix=/NONEXISTENT --bindir=/NONEXISTENT --libdir=/NONEXISTENT --libexecdir=/NONEXISTENT --datadir=/NONEXISTENT --docdir=/NONEXISTENT --haddockdir=/NONEXISTENT --htmldir=/NONEXISTENT --with-compiler=/export/local1/home/maeder/haskell/ghc-6.10.3/ghc/stage1-inplace/ghc --with-hc-pkg=/export/local1/home/maeder/haskell/ghc-6.10.3/utils/ghc-pkg/install-inplace/bin/ghc-pkg --libsubdir=$pkgid --with-gcc=gcc --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --with-alex=/home/pub-bkb/bin/alex --with-happy=/home/pub-bkb/bin/happy --configure-option='--with-cc=gcc --with-hsc2hs=/export/local1/home/maeder/haskell/ghc-6.10.3/utils/hsc2hs/install-inplace/bin/hsc2hs --haddock-options=--use-contents=../index.html --use-index=../doc-index.html' --enable-library-profiling --enable-split-objs Configuring haskeline-0.6.1.5... checking whether to use -liconv... Setup: Unable to link against the iconv library. I wonder how this check for -liconv is generated. I have a file /usr/include/iconv.h but not file /usr/lib/libiconv.* Under Linux I've installed successfully http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.3/ghc-6.10.3-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.b... and I was able to install http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/haskeline/0.6.1.6/haskeline-0.6.... without libiconv!
./Setup configure Configuring haskeline-0.6.1.6... checking whether to use -liconv... not needed.
However, the mere existence of /usr/local/lib/libiconv* files causes configure to use -liconv: checking whether to use -liconv... using -liconv. I would like to avoid this (unnecessary?) dependency (without removing /usr/local/lib). (/usr/local/lib is _not_ part of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and should not be searched by gcc, but is still somehow found and used.) Are there any configure options that work? (The cabal-flag libiconv is false.) How is "checking whether to use ..." generated? Is libiconv really necessary under Solaris? Cheers Christian