Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Job done, thanks Jack and Daniel.... time for a drink? ...think about it....groan ;) All the best, saying that, svgcairo then failed to install with: cabal install --ghc-option=-DCABAL_VERSION_MINOR=10 svgcairo ...but it was because I hadn't installed the ubuntu librsvg stuff, which I promptly and re-running the above command worked just fine. So, I now have Cairo and Cairo SVG bindings locked and loaded, what shall I do with them? (Just kidding!) Once again a big thanks to everybody that's stopped to hell. All the best :) Sean On 07/07/11 12:14, Daniel Fischer wrote:
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.