On Mar 31, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Don Stewart wrote:
I am pleased to announce the release of vacuum-cairo, a Haskell library for interactive rendering and display of values on the GHC heap using Matt Morrow's vacuum library.
Awesome! I want to try this. I have problems though installing it on an Intel MacBook running $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.10.1 $ cabal --version cabal-install version 0.6.2 using version 1.6.0.2 of the Cabal library $ ghc-pkg list gtk /Library/Frameworks/GHC.framework/Versions/610/usr/lib/ghc-6.10.1/./ package.conf: gtk-0.10.0 I have installed gtk2hs using the instructions at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Gtk2Hs#Using_the_GTK.2B_OS_X_Framework A simple cabal update; cabal install vacuum-cairo gives me: $ cabal install vacuum-cairo Resolving dependencies... cabal: cannot configure vacuum-cairo-0.3.1. It requires svgcairo -any There is no available version of svgcairo that satisfies -any I have installed libsvg-cairo using MacPorts and it seems installed in /opt/local/lib: $ ls /opt/local/lib/libsvg-cairo.* /opt/local/lib/libsvg-cairo.1.0.1.dylib /opt/local/lib/libsvg-cairo.1.dylib /opt/local/lib/libsvg-cairo.a /opt/local/lib/libsvg-cairo.dylib /opt/local/lib/libsvg-cairo.la But cabal-install still gives the same error. Even with --extra-lib- dirs set: $ cabal install --extra-lib-dirs=/opt/local/lib/ vacuum-cairo Resolving dependencies... cabal: cannot configure vacuum-cairo-0.3.1. It requires svgcairo -any There is no available version of svgcairo that satisfies -any Hence, I downloaded the tarball and tried to use this instead to install vacuum-cairo, which lead to another problem: I cannot install the vacuum package because of a dependencies conflict due to the package ghc-6.10.1 requiring two different versions of process: $ cabal install vacuum Resolving dependencies... cabal: dependencies conflict: ghc-6.10.1 requires process ==1.0.1.1 however process-1.0.1.1 was excluded because ghc-6.10.1 requires process ==1.0.1.0 Funny. Any ideas on how to get this cool package installed? Thanks! Sebastian