Ticket #185 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 21 months ago

Last modified 21 months ago

cabal install gtk failed

Reported by: frodogreat Owned by: dons
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Platform Keywords:
Cc:

Description

machine: Linux 2.6.18-194.el5 x86_64 ghc version: 7.0.3

"cabal update" and "cabal install cabal-install" completed successfully. When I tried to install gtk using cabal, it fails with the following message (please see attached file for details):

Graphics/UI/Gtk/Types.chs:4837:7:

Not in scope: type constructor or class `TooltipClass?'

Graphics/UI/Gtk/Types.chs:4842:10:

Not in scope: type constructor or class `TooltipClass?'

cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: gtk-0.12.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure? 1

Attachments

report.txt (1.4 kB) - added by frodogreat 21 months ago.
including the kernel and version numbers and error message when install

Change History

Changed 21 months ago by frodogreat

including the kernel and version numbers and error message when install

Changed 21 months ago by petersen

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to invalid
  • component changed from Package Addition to Platform

Have you tried asking gtk2hs upstream about this? I doubt this is cabal-install or haskell-platform's fault.

I am not sure but the version of gtk2 in RHEL5 might be too old for gtk-0.12. If that is the case ideally it should warn you then though.

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