On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 11:08:23PM +0530, bgm-rao@ieee.org wrote:
> Yup, it's what I wanted. If autoconf can find Xlib but ghc can't, > this is almost certainly a GHC bug... (be sure to include your system > information, those paths are pretty unusual)
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/newticket?type=bug
Stefan, Thanks for the help. I did manage to build X11 and the X11-extras package. I removed the extra libs from cabal and aliased ghc to ghc -LX11. The problem seems to be with the lower case "-l" that the compiler was passed due to extra libs. The installation happened all right.
Now, however, I have another problem during xmonad build; presumably these is related to the work-around I figured?
~/xmonad-0.2 <216> runhaskell Setup.lhs build Preprocessing executables for xmonad-0.2... Building xmonad-0.2... [3 of 6] Compiling Config[boot] ( Config.hs-boot, nothing ) Linking dist/build/xmonad/xmonad ... /user/a0875389/X11-extras-0.2/lib/X11-extras-0.2/ghc-6.6.20070213/libHSX11-extras-0.2.a(Extras.o)(.text+0x139c7): In function `X11zmextraszm0zi2_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_zdwccall_info': : undefined reference to `XConfigureWindow' /user/a0875389/X11-extras-0.2/lib/X11-extras-0.2/ghc-6.6.20070213/libHSX11-extras-0.2.a(Extras.o)(.text+0x13adb): In function `X11zmextraszm0zi2_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_zdwccall1_info': : undefined reference to `XKillClient' /user/a0875389/X11-extras-0.2/lib/X11-extras-0.2/ghc-6.6.20070213/libHSX11-extras-0.2.a(Extras.o)(.text+0x13b9f): In function `X11zmextraszm0zi2_GraphicsziX11ziXlibziExtras_zdwccall2_info': : undefined reference to `XFree'
Your workaround is completely false. -LX11 adds a nonexistant directory to the library search path, and as such does absolutely nothing. Since the library X11 is not selected, it cannot find the X11 functions! Library linking under Unix is quite lazy, and the missing dependancies are not found until xmonad is linked. GHC is apparently unable to use the path found by autoconf; try adding -L/usr/X11R6/lib to the Ghc-options. (after putting -lX11 back in and unaliasing ghc). If this doesn't work, file a bug. Stefan