On 20 June 2012 18:22, Oliver Batchelor <[email protected]> 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?) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
