[darcs-users] 2.8 beta 3 (builds on FreeBSD 8.1 with GHC 6.10.4, fails on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid)

[Aditya]

libncurses5-dev provides curses.h.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libncurses5-dev

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com> wrote:
> On 01/19/2012 02:35 AM, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've uploaded darcs 2.8 beta 3 to hackage. You can install it with
>> 'cabal install darcs-beta'.
>>
>> The only change since beta 2 is to fix a problem with the package
>> generation. If you managed to install beta 2 despite that problem, then
>> there's nothing new in beta 3.
>>
>> The draft changelog at http://wiki.darcs.net/changes%20since%202.5 is
>> now mostly complete.
>
> Thanks for your work on this Ganesh.
>
> I was previously affected by the packaging problem, and have confirmed
> that I can now build this beta on FreeBSD 8.1 with GHC 6.10.4.
>
> However, it fails to build on Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" with GHC 6.12.1,
> because it can't find some curses headers. Upgrading cabal-install with
> "cabal install cabal-install" does not help.
>
> Below is the output I'm getting. It refers to "config.log", but I can't
> find this file below .cabal .
>
> I assume there is some curses "-dev" package that needs to be installed,
> but I'm not sure which one, and the manual suggests no further packages
> will be required:
>
> http://www.darcs.net/manual/Building_darcs.html
>
>   Mark
>
> ###
>
> $ .cabal/bin/cabal install darcs-beta
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring terminfo-0.3.2.3...
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for sys/types.h... yes
> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
> checking for stdlib.h... yes
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for strings.h... yes
> checking for inttypes.h... yes
> checking for stdint.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking ncurses.h usability... no
> checking ncurses.h presence... no
> checking for ncurses.h... no
> checking curses.h usability... no
> checking curses.h presence... no
> checking for curses.h... no
> configure: error: curses headers could not be found, so this package
> cannot be built
> See `config.log' for more details.
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> darcs-beta-2.7.98.3 depends on terminfo-0.3.2.3 which failed to install.
> haskeline-0.6.4.6 depends on terminfo-0.3.2.3 which failed to install.
> terminfo-0.3.2.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
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