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

[Jack Henahan]

Yeah, don't mind me. I just got off work (7AM here) so the ol' cognitive faculties are not exactly at peak efficiency.

On Jul 7, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Daniel Fischer wrote:

> On Thursday 07 July 2011, 13:02:46, Sean Charles wrote:
>>> So it seems that it can't infer your cabal's minor version, so it
>>> drops into the else. Do you get any different result when you call
>>> `cabal install --ghc-option=DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=10 cairo`?
>> 
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> target `DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=10' is not a module name or a source file
>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>> cairo-0.12.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
>> ExitFailure 1
> 
> That would be
> 
> --ghc-option=-DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=10
> 
> you need to provide the option-dash yourself, cabal doesn't insert it.