[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE : Leksah 0.12.1.2 (fixes some metadata issues)

[Hilco Wijbenga]

On 20 June 2012 18:22, Oliver Batchelor <saulzar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Check the error given by cairo.
>
> cabal install cairo-0.12.3.1

Well, it wasn't cairo that was the problem but ...

> You probably need to put the .cabal/bin  in your PATH, so that the
> tools such as c2hs can run.

... indeed, adding .cabal/bin to my PATH allowed the install to finish
successfully.

Why doesn't cabal abort when a package fails to install? Why doesn't
it die if .cabal/bin isn't on the PATH? (Surely, that's easy to test
for?)