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

[Mark Stosberg]

On 02/18/2012 02:15 AM, Aditya wrote:
> libncurses5-dev provides curses.h.
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libncurses5-dev

Thanks. I can confirm after installing this package I was able to build
Darcs 2.8 on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx.

   Mark

>> 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