[Nix-dev] Haskell packages that use curses don't build

[Peter Simons]

Hi Peter,

>   nix-shell -p haskellPackages.hscurses
>   * Missing C library: curses
>
>   nix-shell -p haskellPackages.ncurses
>   error: Package ‘c2hs-0.20.1’ in ‘...’ is marked as broken
>
>   nix-shell -p haskellPackages.nanocurses
>   * Missing C library: curses

I ran some tests, too, and added fixes in my branch [1] that fix the
ncurses library. I tried fixing the others, too, but unfortunately these
are broken in a way that's got nothing to do with us and that ought to
be fixed upstream. Anyway, once I merge [1] into master, the ncurses
library will build fine.

I hope this helps,
Peter


[1] https://github.com/peti/nixpkgs/tree/haskell-updates