[xmonad] Creating a new package with cabal-install

wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu
Wed Jan 27 13:17:32 EST 2010


It looks like you misspelled "XMonad" as "Xmonad" in your cabal file.
~d

Quoting Ralph Hofmann <hofmann2004 at arcor.de>:

> I am just trying to follow this tutorial:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/xmonad_development_tutorial
>
> As I would like to use cabal-install, I tried "cabal install" from the
> XMonadContrib directory to build and install the HelloWorld module, but
> I got an error message in section 2.3 of the tutorial:
>
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring xmonad-contrib-0.9.1...
> Preprocessing library xmonad-contrib-0.9.1...
> cabal: can't find source for Xmonad.Actions.HelloWorld in .,
> dist/build/autogen
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> xmonad-contrib-0.9.1 failed during the building phase. The exception
> was:
> exit: ExitFailure 1
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralph
>
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