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 don't understand this error, but it happened to me also earlier today while trying to install Agda 2.3 using GHC 7.4. Saizan from #agda suggested that I try

cabal unpack zlib
cd zlib-0.5.3.2/
runghc Setup configure --user; runghc Setup build; runghc Setup install

This proved effective. But I'm still in the dark about what's actually the problem.

Still, as it worked, I thought I'd share.