Haskell/Stack: terminfo library cannot be built because of missing ncurses #15995
Description
Issue description
When building a haskell project depending on the terminfo library (possibly through other libraries like vty) using stack --nix, the build fails since the ncurses library cannot be found during the configure phase of terminfo. Adding
nix:
packages: [ncurses]to stack.yaml remedies the problem, however this is a very ad-hoc solution. The problem also already occurred for ghc (#2969, #5616) and others (ekmett/wl-pprint-terminfo#7).
Steps to reproduce
-
Start with a clean stack environment (
mv ~/.stack ~/.stack.bkup) -
Set up a new stack/cabal project (
stack new foo) -
Make the project depend on
terminfoby adding in your foo.cabal:[...] executable foo-exe hs-source-dirs: app main-is: Main.hs ghc-options: -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N build-depends: base , terminfo -- <- add this line , foo default-language: Haskell2010 [...] -
stack --nix build
Result:
terminfo-0.4.0.2: download
terminfo-0.4.0.2: configure
Progress: 1/2
-- While building package terminfo-0.4.0.2 using:
/run/user/1000/stack13135/terminfo-0.4.0.2/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-nix/Cabal-1.22.5.0/setup/setup --builddir=.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-nix/Cabal-1.22.5.0 configure --with-ghc=/nix/store/n962p1idgzh07wvhxam5r6icv894kj61-ghc-7.10.3/bin/ghc --with-ghc-pkg=/nix/store/n962p1idgzh07wvhxam5r6icv894kj61-ghc-7.10.3/bin/ghc-pkg --user --package-db=clear --package-db=global --package-db=/home/fthoma/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-nix/lts-5.0/7.10.3/pkgdb --libdir=/home/fthoma/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-nix/lts-5.0/7.10.3/lib --bindir=/home/fthoma/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-nix/lts-5.0/7.10.3/bin --datadir=/home/fthoma/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-nix/lts-5.0/7.10.3/share --libexecdir=/home/fthoma/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-nix/lts-5.0/7.10.3/libexec --sysconfdir=/home/fthoma/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-nix/lts-5.0/7.10.3/etc --docdir=/home/fthoma/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-nix/lts-5.0/7.10.3/doc/terminfo-0.4.0.2 --htmldir=/home/fthoma/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-nix/lts-5.0/7.10.3/doc/terminfo-0.4.0.2 --haddockdir=/home/fthoma/.stack/snapshots/x86_64-linux-nix/lts-5.0/7.10.3/doc/terminfo-0.4.0.2 --dependency=base=base-4.8.2.0-0d6d1084fbc041e1cded9228e80e264d --extra-include-dirs=/nix/store/n962p1idgzh07wvhxam5r6icv894kj61-ghc-7.10.3/include --extra-lib-dirs=/nix/store/n962p1idgzh07wvhxam5r6icv894kj61-ghc-7.10.3/lib
Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
Logs have been written to: /home/fthoma/projects/foo/.stack-work/logs/terminfo-0.4.0.2.log
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /run/user/1000/stack13135/terminfo-0.4.0.2/Setup.lhs, /run/user/1000/stack13135/terminfo-0.4.0.2/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-nix/Cabal-1.22.5.0/setup/Main.o )
Linking /run/user/1000/stack13135/terminfo-0.4.0.2/.stack-work/dist/x86_64-linux-nix/Cabal-1.22.5.0/setup/setup ...
Configuring terminfo-0.4.0.2...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler, --with-gcc
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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... /nix/store/dp6c8mcsashywfkppdzic3l1qz4n9paq-gnugrep-2.22/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /nix/store/dp6c8mcsashywfkppdzic3l1qz4n9paq-gnugrep-2.22/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: in `/run/user/1000/stack13135/terminfo-0.4.0.2':
configure: error: curses headers could not be found, so this package cannot be built
See `config.log' for more details
Technical details
- System: NixOS 16.03.886.0068260 (Emu)
- Nix version: nix-env (Nix) 1.11.2
- Nixpkgs version: 16.03.886.0068260
- Stackage: tried with LTS-5.0 through LTS-5.9