[xmonad] Broken Xmonad after updates

[Brandon Allbery]

Essentially yes. Arch and derivatives insist on using dynamic linking, and
you must rebuild your config after every system update to ensure it still
works. We strongly recommend you use `stack` or `cabal` instead, and
install `xmonad` and `xmonad-contrib` from Hackage. If you choose not to do
so, see
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xmonad#Problems_with_finding_shared_libraries_after_update

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 11:04 AM Jan Detke <jandetke at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> today I moved my xmonad.hs config from $HOME/.xmonad to
> $HOME/.config/xmonad. After that I was unable to recompile xmonad. I then
> moved it back into $HOME/.xmonad but the issue was still persistent. It was
> unable to load the libraries even though I had not changed them at all.
>
> After rebooting and updating the system I tried recompiling again with the
> following result:
>
> xmonad --recompile --verbose
> XMonad is recompiling and replacing itself with another XMonad process
> because the current process is called "xmonad" but the compiled
> configuration should be called "xmonad-x86_64-linux"
> XMonad will use ghc to recompile, because neither
> "/home/jan/.xmonad/build" nor "/home/jan/.xmonad/stack.yaml" exists.
> XMonad skipping recompile because it is not forced (e.g. via --recompile),
> and neither xmonad.hs nor any *.hs / *.lhs / *.hsc files in lib/ have been
> changed.
> /home/jan/.xmonad/xmonad-x86_64-linux: error while loading shared
> libraries: libHSxmonad-contrib-0.17.1-2BxpGTW6opKG3sVOzMilq0-ghc9.0.2.so:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> So far I have read this issue https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/301.
> I am wondering if this is the only option for me here too.
>
> I installed Xmonad via pacman.
>
> Best regards
> Jan
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