[xmonad] Understanding how to build and run xmonad

[Adam Vogt]

Hi,

* On Saturday, January 15 2011, Weeble wrote:

...
>I emptied that out, installed cabal-install[1] and then went to my
>xmonad and XMonadContrib source directories and ran cabal install. Now
>I get a different error from XMonadContrib:
>
>[ 89 of 212] Compiling XMonad.Util.Image ( XMonad/Util/Image.hs,
>dist/build/XMonad/Util/Image.o )
>
>XMonad/Util/Image.hs:24:39:
>    Module `XMonad.Util.Font' does not export `fi'
>
>Any suggestions here?

In the repository, run

cabal clean

Then try the build again.

>(After that failed I tried another darcs pull to see if there have
>been more changes that would help me, but it just seems to stall
>indefinitely at "Identifying repository
>http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib format". Is there a problem with
>the server?)

Yes, code.haskell.org is not the most reliable, but I don't believe you 
need any more patches.

Adam