Re: [Xmonad] how to install?

jcreigh:

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 06:13:30PM -0500, Spencer Janssen wrote:

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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:36:56 -0700 David Roundy wrote:

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Also, the configure step in X11-extras doesn't seem to bother checking whether the xinerama library is present. Is this a bug in X11-extras, or in cabal? I certainly would hope that cabal would have the functionality to check for presence of libraries...

X11-extras currently assumes that xinerama is present. We should change this, probably by the 0.1 release of xmonad/X11-extras.

Any takers? ;)

I poked around the cabal docs for a bit, and I didn't see any obvious way to get cabal to check for the presence of certain headers. Also, if the headers weren't there, we couldn't really do anything anyway, other than fail with a friendlier error.

Yeah, pretty sure cabal can't directly do this. Of course, cabal will run any ./configure script we provide, which could happily check for Xinerama, and then generate a config.h

I wonder if the Xinerama module should be a separate package anyway. What do you guys think about that?

We could also have two cabal files. -- Don