Build failure with GHC 7.10

[ethercrow]

 ~/src/vty % cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.22.0.0
using version 1.22.0.0 of the Cabal library

 ~/src/vty % ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.10.0.20141222

 ~/src/vty % cabal build
Building vty-5.2.6...
Preprocessing library vty-5.2.6...
[21 of 33] Compiling Graphics.Vty.PictureToSpans ( src/Graphics/Vty/PictureToSpans.hs, dist/build/Graphics/Vty/PictureToSpans.o )
<command line>: can't load .so/.DLL for: libtinfo.so (libtinfo.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

[coreyoconnor]

Thanks!
I don't have a 7.10 environment yet. I'll try installing vty once I do. I don't have a system that uses libtinfo. AFAICT libtinfo.so is a alias for ncurses?

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libtinfo/

Looks like a template haskell environment issue.

Template haskell cannot find the .so for this library. Typically this occurs if the --extra-lib-dirs does not contain libtinfo.so (or libncurses.so in my case).

What are the configure options and where is libtinfo.so location? EG: shared/static?

[ethercrow]

I've managed to install vty on that machine (gentoo without libtinfo.so) after cloning terminfo, running autoreconf and cabal-installing it. I'm not sure what's the root cause, maybe a hackage version of terminfo has configure script expecting libtinfo.so to be available.

[coreyoconnor]

Closing in favor of #82.
This is another "bug" caused by requiring a native terminfo library. Too bad I didn't keep a list of all the pain points in setting up build environments properly because of this. haha. There are a lot.

[shanemikel]

I'm having this problem on OpenSUSE. On some forum I read that curses split into two libraries, and a recommendation to symlink libtinfo to libncurses, but I can't do that. I'd love to see this fixed, as I'm interested in trying http://yi-editor.github.io/

[coreyoconnor]

As stated previously: this is an issue with terminfo library. Not vty. Please file an issue with that project.

[shanemikel]

I'm not complaining, I'm voting for moving over to the terminfo-hs library... actually I guess that comment belonged in #82

[coreyoconnor]

Ah! My apologies. Yes: definitely vote for #82. :)

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I'm not complaining, I'm voting for moving over to the terminfo-hs
library... actually I guess that comment belonged in #82
#82

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