[Xmonad] X11 package installation problem..

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 08:59:36PM +0530, bgm-rao at ieee.org wrote:
> 
>      > Do you actually have the X11 development files installed?
>      > If so, what did 'runhaskell Setup.hs configure' say?
> 
> Sorry for not being clear earlier, but I thought, I was
> actually trying to install these X11 development files you mention:
> 
> I first did:
> 
> ~/xmonad-0.2 <45> runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=$HOME
> Configuring xmonad-0.2...
> configure: /apps/free/ghc/6.6/bin/ghc-pkg
> configure: Dependency base>=1.0: using base-2.0
> Setup.lhs: cannot satisfy dependency X11>=1.2.1
> 
> Then, I downloaded the X11-1.2.2 package and that's when I
> get the link error.
> 
> Here's the entire transcript: Please let me know if this 
> is what you asked.

Yup, it's what I wanted.  If autoconf can find Xlib but ghc can't,
this is almost certainly a GHC bug...  (be sure to include your system
information, those paths are pretty unusual)

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/newticket?type=bug

Stefan