xmonad on F10

[lostson]

Hello all 
 I am trying to build xmonad on F10 but keep getting this error

Configuring xmonad-0.8...
Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
    X11 >=1.4.1

I do have X11 and the development stuff installed though

rpm -q libX11
libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.x86_64
libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.i386

This is a 64 bit machine but why cant the configure script find the
appropriate libs it needs ?

[steve]

lostson wrote:
> Hello all 
>  I am trying to build xmonad on F10 but keep getting this error
>
> Configuring xmonad-0.8...
> Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
>     X11 >=1.4.1
>
> I do have X11 and the development stuff installed though
>
> rpm -q libX11
> libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.x86_64
> libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.i386
>
> This is a 64 bit machine but why cant the configure script find the
> appropriate libs it needs ?

you probably need libX11-devel installed too.

- steve
>

[lostson]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 17:35 +0100, steve wrote:
> lostson wrote:
> > Hello all 
> >  I am trying to build xmonad on F10 but keep getting this error
> >
> > Configuring xmonad-0.8...
> > Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> >     X11 >=1.4.1
> >
> > I do have X11 and the development stuff installed though
> >
> > rpm -q libX11
> > libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.x86_64
> > libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.i386
> >
> > This is a 64 bit machine but why cant the configure script find the
> > appropriate libs it needs ?
>
> you probably need libX11-devel installed too.
> steve
> >

Nope I have that installed as well

[stan]

lostson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 17:35 +0100, steve wrote:
> > lostson wrote:
> > > Hello all 
> > >  I am trying to build xmonad on F10 but keep getting this error
> > >
> > > Configuring xmonad-0.8...
> > > Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> > >     X11 >=1.4.1
> > >
> > > I do have X11 and the development stuff installed though
> > >
> > > rpm -q libX11
> > > libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.x86_64
> > > libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.i386

Could it be a typo in the requirements file (configure.ac).
instead of X11 >= 1.4.1 shouldn't it be X11 >= 1.1.4?

[Kennet R. Iversen]

lostson wrote:
> Hello all 
>  I am trying to build xmonad on F10 but keep getting this error
>
> Configuring xmonad-0.8...
> Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
>     X11 >=1.4.1
>
> I do have X11 and the development stuff installed though
>
> rpm -q libX11
> libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.x86_64
> libX11-1.1.4-5.fc10.i386
>
> This is a 64 bit machine but why cant the configure script find the
> appropriate libs it needs ?

It is the Haskell bindings to the X11 graphics library that you need. 
 From the xmonad README:

[snip]
 * Haskell libraries: mtl, unix, X11

Finally, you need the Haskell libraries xmonad depends on. Since
    you've a working GHC installation now, most of these will be
    provided. To check whether you've got a package run 'ghc-pkg list
    some_package_name'. You will need the following packages:

mtl   http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mtl
    unix  http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/unix
    X11   http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11
[snip]

You will have to go to 
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/X11 and 
download those bindings. They are compiled and installed the same way as 
xmonad.

Kennet