On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Tycho Andersen
Below is some sample output from a failing package:
ps168825:~/playground$ cabal install network Resolving dependencies... Configuring network-2.4.1.2... configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler, --with-gcc checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/tmp/network-2.4.1.2-28534/network-2.4.1.2': configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
"cabal install" unpacks a package into /tmp in order to build it. My guess is your OS has /tmp mounted noexec. I don't know offhand how you override this in cabal. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net