#170: pkg-config uses a more general version scheme ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.10.4 Platform: Linux | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by guest): * ghcversion: 6.4.2 => 6.10.4 * version: 1.2.2.0 => 1.8.0.6 Comment: I got {{{ $ cabal install Resolving dependencies... Configuring alsa-core-0.5.0.1... cabal: parsing output of pkg-config --modversion failed cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: alsa-core-0.5.0.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 }}} because {{{ $ pkg-config --modversion alsa 1.0.14a }}} I remember that Cabal had functions for parsing version numbers with tags, would this help here? Newer ALSA versions do not seem to have the version tag anymore. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/170#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects