[xmonad] building on OpenSolaris

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Get the new 0.9.1 release of xmonad which works with the 1.5.0.0 release
of X11.

Otherwise, downgrade X11.

Günther Schmidt <gue.schmidt at web.de> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I managed to install ghc 6.10.4 from the tar ball on haskell.org on
> OpenSolaris 2009.06, the X11 package then also installed quite easily
> too via cabal-install.
>
> But when I tried a cabal install xmonad this error occured:
>
> guenni at opensolaris:~$ cabal install xmonad
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring xmonad-0.9...
> Preprocessing library xmonad-0.9...
> Preprocessing executables for xmonad-0.9...
> Building xmonad-0.9...
> [1 of 8] Compiling XMonad.StackSet  ( XMonad/StackSet.hs,
> dist/build/XMonad/StackSet.o )
> [2 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Core      ( XMonad/Core.hs,
> dist/build/XMonad/Core.o )
> [3 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Layout    ( XMonad/Layout.hs,
> dist/build/XMonad/Layout.o )
> [4 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Operations ( XMonad/Operations.hs,
> dist/build/XMonad/Operations.o )
> [5 of 8] Compiling XMonad.ManageHook ( XMonad/ManageHook.hs,
> dist/build/XMonad/ManageHook.o )
> [6 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Config    ( XMonad/Config.hs,
> dist/build/XMonad/Config.o )
> [7 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Main      ( dist/build/XMonad/Main.hs,
> dist/build/XMonad/Main.o )
>
> XMonad/Main.hsc:332:21:
>     Couldn't match expected type `base:GHC.Word.Word8'
>            against inferred type `Char'
>       Expected type: KeyCode
>       Inferred type: Char
>     In the second argument of `(/=)', namely '\NUL'
>     In the first argument of `when', namely `(kc /= '\NUL')'
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> xmonad-0.9 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> exit: ExitFailure 1
>
>
> I may be wrong, but doesn't this indicate an error in xmonad's code
> itself, how can that be?
>
> Günther
>
>
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