jens.blanck:
Not being very savvy in building things I got stuck when trying to build xmonad. It needs X11 1.2.2, so I tried to build that. Configuration step went fine (I believe), but buiding failed:
runhaskell Setup.hs build Preprocessing library X11-1.2.2... /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status linking Graphics/X11/Types_hsc_make.o failed command was: /usr/bin/ghc-6.6 -lX11 Graphics/X11/Types_hsc_make.o -o Graphics/X11/Types_hsc_make Setup.hs: got error code while preprocessing: Graphics.X11.Types
I have tried the ghc command seperately with the flag -L/usr/X11R6/lib which makes it compile. But I cannot figure out how to proceed from here.
this is such a common issue for xmonad, we have a faq about it: http://xmonad.org/faq.html#x11 the trick is that you'll need to add something like: extra-lib-dirs: /usr/X11R6/lib/ to your .cabal file. -- Don