Re: [Haskell-cafe] I can't install hs-plugins beceause of Linker.h

Fixed on hackage. $ cabal update $ cabal install plugins-1.4.1 Or via the web: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/plugins-1.4.1 -- Don yuri.kashnikoff:

Thanks. Problem solved now!

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 11:38 +0600, Yuri Kashnikoff wrote:

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Hi!

I was trying to install hs-plugins both from sources "$./Setup.lhs ..." and with "$cabal fetch&&cabal install" and both failed. It always reports that Linker.h is missing.

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Setup.lhs: Missing dependency on a foreign library: * Missing header file: Linker.h 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.

It's a bug in the package that was exposed when Cabal-1.6.0.2 started checking for header files and C libs. I reported the bug to the package maintainer at the time of the release of Cabal-1.6.0.2.

Until the maintainer updates it, the fix is to edit the .cabal file and simply remove the mention of Linker.h. You can use the new cabal unpack command:

 cabal unpack plugins  cd plugins-1.4.0  vi plugins.cabal  cabal install

Duncan

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