Bug#885422: cabal-install: Missing C libraries

[Frederic-Emmanuel Picca]

Package: cabal-install
Version: 1.24.0.1-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I tryed to build a projet with cabal on stretch.
That think was working on jessie but now, I get an error
 message like this during the configuration.

:~/hkl/contrib/haskell$ cabal configure
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring hkl-0.1.0.0...
cabal: Missing dependencies on foreign libraries:
* Missing C libraries: hkl, gsl
This problem can usually be solved by installing the system packages that
provide these libraries (you may need the "-dev" versions). If the libraries
are already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the
flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where they are.

the dependency is defined via pkgconfig-depends: hkl

Indeed the C library was installed with the libhkl-dev package and it was working on jessie.

thanks for your help

Frederic

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cabal-install depends on:
ii  ghc [libghc-cabal-dev]  8.0.1-17+b1
ii  libc6                   2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libffi6                 3.2.1-6
ii  libgmp10                2:6.1.2+dfsg-1
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages cabal-install recommends:
ii  ghc  8.0.1-17+b1

cabal-install suggests no packages.

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