Hello-- I hope my question is appropriate here; I couldn't find an obviously better forum for what is apparently a cabal issue in a fair amount of searching. I've been trying to install the terminfo package on my Ubuntu system like so:
~$ cabal install terminfo Resolving dependencies... Configuring terminfo-0.4.0.0...
At this point, the command hangs, and I notice my mouse cursor has transformed into a crosshair image for some reason. I can't click on anything normally, but after several clicks around the screen, the command resumes:
/home/mcafee/node-v0.10.31/configure: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /home/mcafee/node-v0.10.31/configure: line 10: `CC = os.environ.get('CC', 'cc')' Failed to install terminfo-0.4.0.0 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: terminfo-0.4.0.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 2
I executed this command from within an Emacs shell buffer. I tried again from an xterm window and got the same result. I tried yet again from a textual virtual terminal, and the only difference was that this line was printed several times after the "Configuring" line:
import.im6: unable to open X server `' @ error/import.c/ImportImageCommand/368.
Any help resolving this issue would be most welcome.