[Haskell-cafe] Please report any bug of gtk2hs-0.11.0!

[Andy Stewart]

Sebastian Fischer <sebf at informatik.uni-kiel.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Andy Stewart wrote:
>
>> Please report any bug of gtk2hs-0.11.0, we will fix it before release
>> gtk2hs-0.11.1
>
> I have just installed the new Haskell Platform under Mac OS X 10.5. With the previous installation
> of GHC 6.10.4 I managed to install  gtk2hs manually so I think I have all required Unix libs.
>
> Now, I tried to install gtk2hs from Hackage but didn't succeed.
>
>     cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools
>
> works fine but
>
>     cabal install gtk
>
> fails with the message
>
>     Configuring gtk-0.11.0...
>     setup: ./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/IconTheme.chs: invalid argument
>     cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>     gtk-0.11.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>     ExitFailure 1
>
> The dependencies seem to be installed properly:
>
>     # ghc-pkg --user list | grep 0.11.0
>     cairo-0.11.0
>     gio-0.11.0
>     glib-0.11.0
>     pango-0.11.0
>
> Has anyone experienced this before? Googling the error message brings up a related problem under
> Solaris but no solution.
It's a bug of gtk2hs-0.11.0, that IconTheme.chs contain some UTF-8
character that can't handle by gtk2hs/gtk/Gtk2HsSetup.hs 

You can fix this problem with two solutions:

1) Change your locate to UTF-8.
2) Or download darcs version of gtk2hs (darcs get http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs).

Cheers,

  -- Andy