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

[Sean Charles]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
Job done, thanks Jack and Daniel.... time for a drink?  ...think about 
it....groan ;)

All the best, saying that, svgcairo then failed to install with:
   cabal install --ghc-option=-DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=10 svgcairo

...but it was because I hadn't installed the ubuntu librsvg stuff, which 
I promptly and re-running the above command worked just fine.

So, I now have Cairo and Cairo SVG bindings locked and loaded, what 
shall I do with them? (Just kidding!)
Once again a big thanks to everybody that's stopped to hell.

All the best
:)
Sean



On 07/07/11 12:14, 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.