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

[Peter Jones]

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:
> 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.
>
> [1] https://github.com/peti/nixpkgs/tree/haskell-updates

Thanks!  I might be bugging the authors of the other packages.

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