[Xmonad] issue building xmonad on OS X 10.4

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Sat Oct 20 11:17:50 EDT 2007


vincent:
> Don, Spencer:
> 
> Spencer Janssen wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 October 2007 04:32:06 Vincent Kraeutler wrote:
> >   
> >> Vincent Kraeutler wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Don Stewart wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> 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.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > 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
> >
> >   
> 
> I believe I can now summarize: My build problem was _not_ due to
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1372
> but rather due to a simple mistake of mine: I used xmonad-0.4 from darcs
> while using the non-darcs X11-extras package.
> 
> Thank you very much for your help.
> Kind regards,
> v.

Spencer, has there been an api change in X11-extras that we depend on?
If so, better bump the minor version of X11-extras.

-- Don


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