On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 09:15:44PM -0700, Greg Steuck wrote:
> I installed xmonad package on 5.5/amd64 and tried to start with the most
> trivial config:
>
> % xmonad --recompile
> Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file:
> /home/greg/.xmonad/xmonad.hs
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lHSffi
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
[...]
> libHSffi is indeed nowhere to be found:
> % pkg_info -L ghc-7.6.3p1 | grep HSffi
Anything related to FFI is contained in ghc (and the ghc-7.6.3
library) itself. There is indeead no libHSffi.
> Is anybody successfully running xmonad on 5.5? Where do you get libHSffi
> from?
It works fine here (on current, with packages built on my own build
machine).
Do you have any werid leftovers in your ~/.ghc and/or ~/.cabal
directories? While our hs-ports always ensure to use only the
globally installed hs libraries (i.e. in ${LOCALBASE}/lib/ghc),
xmonad may also pull in user-installed libraries.
You can explicitely list global and user hs-libaries using
ghc-pkg list --global
and
ghc-pkg list --user
Ciao,
Kili
