Re: [Haskell-cafe] building darcs failed (Unable to link against the iconv library)

On 03/03/2013 10:56 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Dmitry Malikov mailto:malikov.d.y@gmail.com> wrote:

checking whether to use -liconv... setup: Unable to link against the iconv library. Failed to install darcs-2.8.4 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:

What is actually going on here? Iconv libraries already installed with libc6 package. Running ubuntu, cabal-install-1.16.0.2.

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 program to test the link.)

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