
Sorry, slightly off-topic. I wanted to install LHC to compare that to GHC and JHC, but alas: dafis@linux-mkk1:~/Haskell/LHC/lhc-0.8> cabal install -fwith-libs -flhc-regress Resolving dependencies... Configuring libffi-0.1... cabal: The pkg-config package libffi is required but it could not be found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: lhc-0.8 depends on libffi-0.1 which failed to install. libffi-0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1 Okay, so I installed libffi, but to no avail, still can't find libffi. The problem is apparently that libffi doesn't come with a .pc file, so pkg-config doesn't know about it. Does anybody know how to fix that? (openSuse 11.1, if that matters)

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Daniel Fischer
Sorry, slightly off-topic.
I wanted to install LHC to compare that to GHC and JHC, but alas:
dafis@linux-mkk1:~/Haskell/LHC/lhc-0.8> cabal install -fwith-libs -flhc-regress Resolving dependencies... Configuring libffi-0.1... cabal: The pkg-config package libffi is required but it could not be found. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: lhc-0.8 depends on libffi-0.1 which failed to install. libffi-0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1
Okay, so I installed libffi, but to no avail, still can't find libffi. The problem is apparently that libffi doesn't come with a .pc file, so pkg-config doesn't know about it.
We no longer use libffi and I've removed the dependency. However, you're most likely to hit further obstacles when it comes to building the base libraries for LHC. I recommend waiting for the next stable release. -- Cheers, Lemmih

Am Freitag 13 November 2009 18:58:22 schrieb Lemmih:
We no longer use libffi and I've removed the dependency.
However, you're most likely to hit further obstacles when it comes to building the base libraries for LHC. I recommend waiting for the next stable release.
Is there already a timeline?

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Daniel Fischer
Am Freitag 13 November 2009 18:58:22 schrieb Lemmih:
We no longer use libffi and I've removed the dependency.
However, you're most likely to hit further obstacles when it comes to building the base libraries for LHC. I recommend waiting for the next stable release.
Is there already a timeline?
Shortly after ghc-6.12 and cabal-1.8 are released. -- Cheers, Lemmih
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