[xmonad] Broken Xmonad after updates

Jan Detke jandetke at outlook.com
Sun Oct 22 15:11:16 UTC 2023


Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> writes:

> 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

So I went the route of removing everything related to haskell, ghci and cabal from my system and followed the instructions of installing and setting up xmonad with stack. The installation went through and xmonad is recompiling under the usage of the given bash script (which invokes stack build). There are no errors given to me but I noticed that there is no 'xmonad-x86_64-linux' executable generated in my folder after running the script. In fact there is an executable created called '-lm' but I do not know if this is just an issue related to the filename or something else wrong here.

I followed these instructions on installing xmonad via stack: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/blob/883143fd5895e0da4ee8e50722e3011cf30e2ca6/INSTALL.md

Can you help me out here?

Best regards
Jan


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