[Haskell-beginners] concerning wxHaskell: wxcore fails to install

[Obscaenvs]

Attempting to install the wxcore package yields the following result on 
my Arch Linux box, got the same result on an Ubuntu box:
<code>
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
wxcore-0.12.1.7 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
</code>

As a result, the package wx cannot be installed either. I am trying to 
get started with wxHaskell.

Is there any way to fix this retaining one's sanity?

/Fredrik