A workaround is to make a symbolic link to libstdc++.so.6 with the
name of libstdc++.so in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib or other dynamic
library path like the following.
This is an indication that you have not installed your distribution's -dev package for the library in question. You should do so instead of making the symlink manually.
(cabal has no support for this kind of thing)
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