zlib build error with GHC

Question

I\'m using a VM with the following configuration:

• Arch Linux (3.0-ARCH kernel)
• GHC 7.0.3
• cabal-install 0.10.2
• Cabal library 1.10.1.0

Answer 1

I'm still encountering this with the haskell package zlib-0.5.4.2 on GHC 7.8.4. I think the issue is a non-standard location of the library. I solved it by hand-installing zlib 1.2.8 and then doing:

cabal install zlib --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/lib --extra-include-dir=/usr/local/include