On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Dmitry Malikov <malikov.d.y@gmail.com> wrote:
On 03/03/2013 10:56 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Dmitry Malikov <malikov.d.y@gmail.com> wrote:
checking  whether  to  use  -liconv...  setup:  Unable  to  link  against  the  iconv  library.

What is actually going on here? Iconv libraries already installed with libc6 package.

Linux distinguishes between runtime and linkable libraries; you probably need to install the libc6-dev package to get the latter. (This is not a Haskell-specific issue; configure is using a C 
But libc6-dev is already the newest version.

Then you'll have to check config.log (this probably means doing the build manually with "cabal unpack darcs"  and then running "cabal install" without a package name from the directory with the darcs.cabal file) to see what's going wrong.

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