On 23/11/09 06:53, Daniel Schüssler wrote:
Hi,
I don't think this is the same problem as the one mentioned by Alex (installing `network' works for me):
{---------------------------------------------- $ cabal install X11
Resolving dependencies... Configuring X11-1.4.6.1... configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
[... configure stuff omitted...]
checking for X11/cursorfont.h... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating config.mk config.status: creating X11.buildinfo config.status: creating include/HsX11Config.h config.status: creating include/X11_extras_config.h configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler Preprocessing library X11-1.4.6.1... hsc2hs: Graphics/X11/Xlib/Extras.hsc: hGetContents: invalid argument (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)
This is partly the result of new behaviour in 6.12.1RC2. hGetContents now throws an exception if an I/O error is encountered, in a deliberate diversion from the Haskell 98 spec which says that it should terminate the stream silently. We decided that this was the pertinent thing to do given that people are quite likely to encounter decoding errors with the new Unicode-aware I/O library, and silently ignoring the error would lead to large amounts of confusion.
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: X11-1.4.6.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 ----------------------------------------------}
Converting the offending file (Extras.hsc) to UTF-8 manually solves it:
Thanks to the wonderfully precise error message, you were able to fix the problem and get going again. I declare this a victory :) Cheers, Simon