Hi, On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 09:14:54AM -0700, Judah Jacobson wrote:
Oops! The last sentence is a little bit misleading. The real problem seems to be the way haskeline's Setup.hs tries to check for libiconv (it doesn't use /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include for libraries and include files even if you pass them via environment in LDDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to configure for a complete ghc buidl).
Are you building ghc-6.10 or 6.11? For 6.10.3, you can specify extra library/include folders using EXTRA_CABAL_CONFIGURE_FLAGS in your mk/build.mk:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_3.html#sources
For 6.11, ghc doesn't use Haskeline's Setup.hs file anymore (since the base library now also uses iconv), so I wouldn't expect you to have that problem.
Well, I actually was building 6.11, but I got confused with several trees with recent and not-so-recent versions. The actual failure was in libraries/base, where LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS in the environment aren't passed to the sub makes nor to calls of inplace/bin/ghc-cabal (with appropriate options). I'm not sure wether this should be addressed in ghc's build system, in base or in cabal. FTR, here are the last lines of a LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \ ./inplace/bin/ghc-cabal configure -v3 \ --with-ghc=/home/kili/src/ghc/ghc-head/inplace/bin/dummy-ghc \ --with-ghc-pkg=/home/kili/src/ghc/ghc-head/inplace/bin/ghc-pkg \ --with-gcc=gcc --configure-option=--with-cc=gcc \ --with-hscolour=/usr/local/bin/HsColour \ -- dist-ins tall libraries/base configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating base.buildinfo config.status: creating include/HsBaseConfig.h config.status: include/HsBaseConfig.h is unchanged Reading parameters from ./base.buildinfo ("/usr/bin/gcc",["/tmp/14231.c","-o","/tmp/14231","-D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=611","-Iinclude","-I.","-I/home/kili/src/ghc/ghc-head/includes","-I/home/kili/src/ghc/ ghc-head/libffi/build/include","-liconv"]) /usr/bin/gcc returned ExitFailure 1 with error message: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ("/usr/bin/gcc",["/tmp/14231.c","-o","/tmp/14231","-liconv"]) /usr/bin/gcc returned ExitFailure 1 with error message: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ("/usr/bin/gcc",["/tmp/14231.c","-o","/tmp/14231","-liconv"]) /usr/bin/gcc returned ExitFailure 1 with error message: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ("/usr/bin/gcc",["/tmp/14231.c","-o","/tmp/14231","-c","-D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=611","-Iinclude","-I.","-I/home/kili/src/ghc/ghc-head/includes","-I/home/kili/src /ghc/ghc-head/libffi/build/include"]) ghc-cabal: Missing dependency on a foreign library: * Missing C library: iconv This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is. Ciao, Kili