On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 05:15 -0400, Dominic Espinosa wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to install hscurses on debian-testing. I have ghc6 installed, which I've written some toy programs with, but I haven't tried to install any Hackage packages until now.
hscurses depends on old-time and old-locale (those names make me raise my eyebrows a bit). In turn, old-time seems to depend on old-locale. So, I tried installing old-locale first. In installed fine. Now I'm trying to install old-time:
I think you must be using ghc-6.6.x in which case you do not need old-time and indeed you cannot install it. The modules in old-time were included in the base package in ghc-6.6.x and split out into the old-time package in ghc-6.8.x. So the problem is that hscurses is not buildable out-of-the-box with ghc-6.6.x. You can probably hack it by editing the hscurses.cabal file and removing old-locale and old-time from the build-depends field. On the hackage page for hscurses http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hscurses it says: Built on ghc-6.8 what this doesn't say clearly is that this means it did not build on ghc-6.6. Duncan