[Haskell-beginners] Cannot install cairo with cabal...

[Sean Charles]

flushed as in happy, not like a buffer, with my recent OpenGL and 
haskell hacking I attempted to install cairo to try rendering a cairo 
generated image into a GL texture but once again, the sometimes 
obstreperous cabal is making it hard.

<rant>
I sometimes think that cabal is the "weak" point for newbies like me 
accepting Haskell in all its goodness... if you can't cleanly and simply 
install libraries then ultimately you will walk away for something less 
obstructive...
</rant>

Can anybody tell me that this means and how to solve it ?
Thanks,
Sean.

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scharles at ubuntu:~/stuff/hackinge/objitsu/trunk/haskell/felt/src$ cabal 
--version
cabal-install version 0.10.2
using version 1.10.2.0 of the Cabal library
scharles at ubuntu:~/stuff/hackinge/objitsu/trunk/haskell/felt/src$ ghc 
--version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.3
scharles at ubuntu:~/stuff/hackinge/objitsu/trunk/haskell/felt/src$ ghci 
--version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.3
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/tmp/cairo-0.12.013023/cairo-0.12.0/Gtk2HsSetup.hs:25:2:
      warning: #warning Setup.hs is guessing the version of Cabal. If 
compilation of Setup.hs fails use -DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=x for Cabal 
version 1.x.0 when building (prefixed by --ghc-option= when using the 
'cabal' command)
[1 of 2] Compiling Gtk2HsSetup      ( 
/tmp/cairo-0.12.013023/cairo-0.12.0/Gtk2HsSetup.hs, 
/tmp/cairo-0.12.013023/cairo-0.12.0/dist/setup/Gtk2HsSetup.o )

/tmp/cairo-0.12.013023/cairo-0.12.0/Gtk2HsSetup.hs:201:69:
     Couldn't match expected type `PackageDBStack'
            against inferred type `PackageDB'
     In the sixth argument of `registerPackage', namely `packageDb'
     In the expression:
         registerPackage
           verbosity installedPkgInfo pkg lbi inplace packageDb
     In a case alternative:
         _ | modeGenerateRegFile -> die "Generate Reg File not supported"
           | modeGenerateRegScript -> die "Generate Reg Script not 
supported"
           | otherwise
           -> registerPackage
                verbosity installedPkgInfo pkg lbi inplace packageDb
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
cairo-0.12.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1