[Xmonad] X11 package installation problem..

Stefan O'Rear stefanor at cox.net
Sat Jun 30 11:09:53 EDT 2007


On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 08:15:05PM +0530, bgm-rao at ieee.org wrote:
> 
> I wanted to install xmonad; the X11 package however does
> not build:
> 
> > runhaskell Setup.hs build
> Preprocessing library X11-1.2.2...
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> linking Graphics/X11/Types_hsc_make.o failed
> command was: ghc -lX11 Graphics/X11/Types_hsc_make.o -o Graphics/X11/Types_hsc_make
> Setup.hs: got error code while preprocessing: Graphics.X11.Types
> 
> The buildinfo has this:
> -- X11.buildinfo.  Generated from X11.buildinfo.in by configure.
> -- System-dependent values used by Distribution.Simple.defaultUserHooks
> --
> buildable: True
> cc-options:  -I/usr/X11R6/include
> ld-options:  -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> 
> And they seem all right.

Do you actually have the X11 development files installed?

If so, what did 'runhaskell Setup.hs configure' say?

Stefan


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