13 Apr
2017
13 Apr
'17
5:23 p.m.
On 13/04/17 18:42, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: > On 2017-04-11 03:20 AM, Lana Black wrote: >>> cabal configure >> Resolving dependencies... >> Configuring cabal-bug-0.1... >> cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library: >> * Missing C library: HSrts-ghc8.0.2 >> This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that >> provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the >> library is >> already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the >> flags >> --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is. >> >> However, that doesn't prevent cabal build from succeeding, and now I >> have a shared library linked to RTS. > > [...] > >> However, if I run cabal build without calling cabal configure first, the >> latter fails and the build process is stopped at that point. This also >> prevents me from building my project with stack. > > Here is the thing. I cannot reproduce either outcome. > I dug a bit further, and it looks like the cabal configure error is somehow related to Gentoo, since I'm only able to reproduce it there. Otherwise the solution you linked works perfectly.