[Xmonad] issue building xmonad on OS X 10.4

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Fri Oct 19 12:30:52 EDT 2007


allbery:
> 
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 11:58 , Vincent Kraeutler wrote:
> 
> >[4 of 6] Compiling Operations       ( Operations.hs,
> >dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/Operations.o )
> >
> >Operations.hs:81:17: Not in scope: `withdrawnState'
> >
> >Operations.hs:190:17: Not in scope: `iconicState'
> >
> >Operations.hs:201:17: Not in scope: `normalState'
> 
> The actual cause is that rebuilding X11-extras without doing a  
> "runhaskell Setup.lhs clean" fails to detect that one of the .hsc  
> files changed, so the new bindings don't actually get compiled in  
> because the corresponding .hs file is not regenerated.  This is  
> documented in the X11-extras README.
> 
> This could arguably be called a cabal bug, but it's not an xmonad or  
> X11-extras bug per se.
> 

it's a reported GHC bug. Hopefully fixed soon. I'll put some more
reports in about it, since that's 5 or so since the release for the same
issue.

-- Don


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