[xmonad] xmonad: xmonad-extras 0.12 fails to build
adam vogt
vogt.adam at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 04:35:41 UTC 2015
Hi.
The fixity is different (infixl 1 not infixl 4) so using the one from
control.applicative means some parentheses have to be added.
Regards,
Assam
On Apr 10, 2015 12:16 AM, "Carlos López-Camey" <c.lopez at kmels.net> wrote:
> Hi Dave, by the results of hoogle *, it looks like (<*) is defined in
> Applicative. I think Applicative is a super class of Monad in newer GHC and
> is now included in the Prelude. So, I believe it would be safe to just
> remove it.
>
> *
> https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=Monad+m+%3D%3E+m+a+-%3E+m+b+-%3E+m+a
>
> Cheers
>
> 2015-04-09 21:55 GMT-06:00 Dave Macias <davama at gmail.com>:
>
>> Thanks for responding Brent.
>>
>> Not very good at haskell myself.
>> Im looking at the XMonad.Actions.Volume and there i find:
>>
>> infixl 1 <*
>> (<*) :: Monad m => m a -> m b -> m a
>> pa <* pb = pa >>= \a -> pb >> return a
>>
>> I'm assuming this is what you were referring to for solution (1). I've
>> been trying to play with it but i get mixed errors when building, how do i
>> rename?
>> Here is the code just in case im looking at it wrong:
>>
>> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-extras-0.12/src/XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs
>>
>> I also plan to email the maintainer, but i would like to have this work
>> for educational purposes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It looks like XMonad.Actions.Volume defines an operator (<*), but as of
>>> base-4.8 an operator with that name has been added to the Prelude. The fix
>>> would be to either (1) rename the operator in XMonad.Actions.Volume, or (2)
>>> hide the operator from Prelude and tell everyone who wants to use
>>> XMonad.Actions.Volume.(<*) that they need to hide it from Prelude too.
>>>
>>> xmonad-extras is not officially a part of the xmonad project; you should
>>> contact the maintainers listed at
>>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-extras .
>>>
>>> -Brent
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:45 PM Dave Macias <davama at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is my first time posting here so i hope im doing this right.
>>>> Just updated ghc to 7.10.1 and had to rebuild xmonad, xmonad-contrib,
>>>> and xmobar.
>>>> I also use xmonad-extras but it failed during the build. I tried using
>>>> cabal and also from source but both give same output:
>>>>
>>>> $ cabal install xmonad-extras
>>>>
>>>> Resolving dependencies...
>>>> Configuring xmonad-extras-0.12...
>>>> Building xmonad-extras-0.12...
>>>> Failed to install xmonad-extras-0.12
>>>> Build log ( /home/dvmacias/.cabal/logs/xmonad-extras-0.12.log ):
>>>> Configuring xmonad-extras-0.12...
>>>> Building xmonad-extras-0.12...
>>>> Preprocessing library xmonad-extras-0.12...
>>>> [1 of 2] Compiling XMonad.Util.WindowPropertiesRE (
>>>> XMonad/Util/WindowPropertiesRE.hs,
>>>> dist/build/XMonad/Util/WindowPropertiesRE.o )
>>>> [2 of 2] Compiling XMonad.Actions.Volume ( XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs,
>>>> dist/build/XMonad/Actions/Volume.o )
>>>>
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:173:23:
>>>> Ambiguous occurrence ‘<*’
>>>> It could refer to either ‘XMonad.Actions.Volume.<*’,
>>>> defined at XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:66:4
>>>> or ‘Prelude.<*’,
>>>> imported from ‘Prelude’ at
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:15:8-28
>>>> (and originally defined in ‘GHC.Base’)
>>>>
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:173:43:
>>>> Ambiguous occurrence ‘<*’
>>>> It could refer to either ‘XMonad.Actions.Volume.<*’,
>>>> defined at XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:66:4
>>>> or ‘Prelude.<*’,
>>>> imported from ‘Prelude’ at
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:15:8-28
>>>> (and originally defined in ‘GHC.Base’)
>>>>
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:200:62:
>>>> Ambiguous occurrence ‘<*’
>>>> It could refer to either ‘XMonad.Actions.Volume.<*’,
>>>> defined at XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:66:4
>>>> or ‘Prelude.<*’,
>>>> imported from ‘Prelude’ at
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:15:8-28
>>>> (and originally defined in ‘GHC.Base’)
>>>>
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:215:32:
>>>> Ambiguous occurrence ‘<*’
>>>> It could refer to either ‘XMonad.Actions.Volume.<*’,
>>>> defined at XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:66:4
>>>> or ‘Prelude.<*’,
>>>> imported from ‘Prelude’ at
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:15:8-28
>>>> (and originally defined in ‘GHC.Base’)
>>>>
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:225:58:
>>>> Ambiguous occurrence ‘<*’
>>>>
>>>> It could refer to either ‘XMonad.Actions.Volume.<*’,
>>>> defined at XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:66:4
>>>> or ‘Prelude.<*’,
>>>> imported from ‘Prelude’ at
>>>> XMonad/Actions/Volume.hs:15:8-28
>>>> (and originally defined in ‘GHC.Base’)
>>>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>>>> xmonad-extras-0.12 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>>>> ExitFailure 1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I got to look at the log but it just has what i pasted above. System is
>>>> Arch 3.19.2-1-ARCH
>>>>
>>>> Any input is appreciated.
>>>> Thanks
>>>> dave
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