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