[Xmonad] Re: Compile error: How to find problem in environment?

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad as well. Kai Grossjohann writes: [...]

Hm. Now I tried to reproduce the problem, but it didn't work! The difference to before is that I can autoreconf, not autoconf.

My fault. I should have said "autoreconf" not "autoconf". Have you tried autoreconf on an unaltered source tree? (That works on Debian unstable i386 GNU/Linux, anyway.)