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

[Jack Henahan]

Might need quotes (single or double should be fine, unless I'm an idiot :D ) around the DCABAL business. I can never remember the correct syntax on those bits. Failing that, you can probably get in touch with the package developer and see if he has any ideas. What OS are you on, by the way?

On Jul 7, 2011, at 7:02 AM, 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
> 
> 
> :)
> 
> I also tried moving the furniture around ...
> 
>  cabal --ghc-option=DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=10  install cairo
> and
> cabal install --ghc-option=DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=10 cairo
> 
> just in case but to no avail, same message in all cases....