Won't install on OSX 10.9

[ZachMassia]

I'm having trouble installing Helm on Mavericks.

Install log and setup info: https://gist.github.com/ZachMassia/5edc0a01f51148846bc4

I found http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2013-October/111001.html which seems to indicate a problem with glib and ghc 7.6, however I am running ghc 7.8 which should of fixed the problem.

[z0w0]

Honestly, I've got no idea. It doesn't look like the same issue because cabal installed cairo fine. What version of glib do you have installed?

[ZachMassia]

I've got glib 2.40.0_1 installed from Homebrew.

[ZachMassia]

So I've made some progress. I googled a bit regarding the following line:

Package 'xcb-shm', required by 'cairo', not found

This led me to this homebrew issue which suggested running

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig.

That seemed to resolve the xcb-shm related errors, leaving me with just the glib related errors, as seen here.

[maoe]

You probably could work around the issue by installing gcc using homebrew then passing --with-gcc=gcc-<version> to cabal so that ghc uses actual gcc rather than clang.

[ZachMassia]

Wow, that was easy. Thanks a bunch @maoe !

If anyone else runs into this problem, the current stable gcc on homebrew (4.9.1) worked for me:

cabal install helm --with-gcc=gcc-4.9