`cabal install darcs` fail !

cabal update cabal install darcs ...... Installing library in /home/sw2wolf/.cabal/lib/hashed-storage-0.5.5/ghc-6.10.4 Registering hashed-storage-0.5.5... Reading package info from "dist/installed-pkg-config" ... done. Writing new package config file... done. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: darcs-2.5.1 depends on haskeline-0.6.3.2 which failed to install. haskeline-0.6.3.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1
uname -a FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #1: Wed Sep 8 09:07:54 CST 2010 root@mybsd.zsoft.com:/media/G/usr/obj/media/G/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386
It seems that the cabal is NOT very strong, isnot it ? ----- e^(π.i) + 1 = 0 -- View this message in context: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/cabal-install-darcs-fail-tp3390542p3390... Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

On Friday 18 February 2011 04:17:49, z_axis wrote:
cabal update cabal install darcs
...... Installing library in /home/sw2wolf/.cabal/lib/hashed-storage-0.5.5/ghc-6.10.4 Registering hashed-storage-0.5.5... Reading package info from "dist/installed-pkg-config" ... done. Writing new package config file... done. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: darcs-2.5.1 depends on haskeline-0.6.3.2 which failed to install. haskeline-0.6.3.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1
To find out what didn't work, cabal install -v3 haskeline-0.6.3.2 Admittedly, the message you get is not very helpful. Btw, it may be that upgrading ghc (to at least 6.12.3 if not 7) helps.
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