[commit: Cabal] master: Note in the README that zlib needs the zlib C lib package (3e41464)
Ian Lynagh
igloo at earth.li
Fri Jun 24 02:01:53 CEST 2011
Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/packages/Cabal
On branch : master
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/3e41464cd838e362b1a964aef2c42144f915c7ea
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commit 3e41464cd838e362b1a964aef2c42144f915c7ea
Author: Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
Date: Fri Jan 16 00:05:41 2009 +0000
Note in the README that zlib needs the zlib C lib package
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cabal-install/README | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/cabal-install/README b/cabal-install/README
index b6a5de7..49f4830 100644
--- a/cabal-install/README
+++ b/cabal-install/README
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ It requires three other Haskell packages that are not always installed:
All of these are available from [Hackage](http://hackage.haskell.org).
+Note that on some Unix systems you may need to install an additional zlib
+development package using your system package manager. This is because the
+Haskell zlib package uses the system zlib C library and header files.
+
In future, cabal-install will be part of the Haskell Platform so will not need
to be installed separately. In the mean time however you have to install it
manually. Since it is just an ordinary Cabal package it can be built in the
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