[Xmonad] issue building xmonad on OS X 10.4

[Spencer Janssen]

On Saturday 20 October 2007 04:32:06 Vincent Kraeutler wrote:
> Vincent Kraeutler wrote:
> > Don Stewart wrote:
> >> vincent:
> >>> Dear xmonad list,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to report a build problem with xmonad on OS X 10.4 as well
> >>> as a) a tentative description of the problem;
> >>> b) a hackish fix which seems to work for me.
> >>
> >> Can I just confirm this was fixed by runhaskell Setup.lhs clean in the
> >> xmonad directory? (And is this bug in ghc's recompilation checker:
> >>
> >>     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1372
> >>
> >> -- Don
>
> I just realize I have misunderstood your question, and I would like to
> clarify: I don't think the problem was a lack of recompilation of
> modules in xmonad. Rather, X11-extras failed to export these three
> required symbols (as I could verify with a bit of nm). So the problem
> was with X11-extras rather than xmonad.
>
> Straight build from the hackage package:
> X11-extras-0.4.bak vincent$ nm dist/build/libHSX11-extras-0.4.a | grep
> State
> X11-extras-0.4.bak vincent$
>
> from darcs, with autoreconf:
> vincent-kraeutlers-computer-2:~/haskell/X11-extras vincent$ !nm
> nm dist/build/libHSX11-extras-0.4.a | grep  State
> 00029e48 D
> _X11zmextraszm0zi4_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_iconicState_closure
> 0001c4f0 T _X11zmextraszm0zi4_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_iconicState_info
> 0001c4e8 t
> _X11zmextraszm0zi4_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_iconicState_info_dsp
> 00029e58 D
> _X11zmextraszm0zi4_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_normalState_closure
> 0001c550 T _X11zmextraszm0zi4_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_normalState_info
> 0001c548 t
> _X11zmextraszm0zi4_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_normalState_info_dsp
> 00029690 D
> _X11zmextraszm0zi4_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_withdrawnState_closure
>
> Kind regards,
> v.

These constants were added shortly after the 0.4 release.  In general, you
should run the darcs version of X11-extras with the darcs version of xmonad.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen