[xmonad] Xmonad-contrib build failure

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:39 PM, aditya siram  wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am building XMonad-Contrib using cabal-install and I get the following
> error:
> XMonad/Hooks/UrgencyHook.hs:359:48:
>     The section `5 `seconds`' takes one argument,
>     but its type `Int' has none
>     In the `duration' field of a record
>     In the expression:
>         DzenUrgencyHook {duration = (5 `seconds`), args = []}
>     In the definition of `dzenUrgencyHook':
>         dzenUrgencyHook = DzenUrgencyHook
>                             {duration = (5 `seconds`), args = []}
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> xmonad-contrib-0.8 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> exit: ExitFailure 1
>
> Cabal version is:
>>cabal-install version 0.6.1
>>using version 1.6.0.1 of the Cabal library
> And xmonad versions are:
>  * xmonad
>       Latest version available: 0.8
>       Latest version installed: 0.8
>       Category: System
>       Synopsis: A lightweight X11 window manager.
>       License:  BSD3
>
>  * xmonad-contrib
>       Latest version available: 0.8
>       Homepage: http://xmonad.org/
>       Category: System
>       Synopsis: Third party extensions for xmonad
>       License:  BSD3
>
> Thanks for your help ..,
> -deech

This is a known issue with 6.10; it is fixed in Darcs xmonad/xmc.

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gwern
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