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

[Daniel Fischer]

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.