[[!comment format=mdwn username="robohack" ip="24.67.98.78" subject="hmmm... ok, the PCRE problem was odd, but now this:" date="2013-11-21T20:30:54Z" content=""" The PCRE problem is solved trivially in my case with a couple more cabal install options, though the need for these seems oddly dissatisfying given the reams of other stuff that was successfully built and installed without these options. Now however I seem to have encountered a deeper problem: $ cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin --extra-include-dirs=/sw/include --extra-lib-dirs=/sw/lib Resolving dependencies... [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /var/folders/7h/7hWHR5m8HPKOnUEvQU7HU++++TI/-Tmp-/git-annex-3.20120230-84797/git-annex-3.20120230/Setup.hs, /var/folders/7h/7hWHR5m8HPKOnUEvQU7HU++++TI/-Tmp-/git-annex-3.20120230-84797/git-annex-3.20120230/dist/setup/Main.o ) Linking /var/folders/7h/7hWHR5m8HPKOnUEvQU7HU++++TI/-Tmp-/git-annex-3.20120230-84797/git-annex-3.20120230/dist/setup/setup ... hsc2hs Utility/StatFS.hsc perl -i -pe 's/^{-# INCLUDE.*//' Utility/StatFS.hs ghc -O2 -Wall -ignore-package monads-fd --make configure Utility/StatFS.hsc:54:8: Could not find module `GHC.Foreign': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. make: *** [Build/SysConfig.hs] Error 1 Configuring git-annex-3.20120230... Building git-annex-3.20120230... Preprocessing executable 'git-annex' for git-annex-3.20120230... Git/Version.hs:11:18: Could not find module `Build.SysConfig': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. Failed to install git-annex-3.20120230 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: git-annex-3.20120230 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 """]]