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fixed pkgbuild: https://git.ignuranza.net/alecs/cringe/src/branch/master/pkgbuilds/xmonad-git/PKGBUILD

Please update haskell-x11 dependency

I'm getting a compilation error with the latest version

dist/build/autogen/Paths_xmonad.hs:10:1: error:
    Could not find module ‘Control.Exception’
    There are files missing in the ‘base-4.10.1.0’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
10 | import qualified Control.Exception as Exception
   | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/build/autogen/Paths_xmonad.hs:11:1: error:
    Could not find module ‘Data.Version’
    There are files missing in the ‘base-4.10.1.0’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
11 | import Data.Version (Version(..))
   | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/build/autogen/Paths_xmonad.hs:12:1: error:
    Could not find module ‘System.Environment’
    There are files missing in the ‘base-4.10.1.0’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
12 | import System.Environment (getEnv)
   | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

dist/build/autogen/Paths_xmonad.hs:13:1: error:
    Could not find module ‘Prelude’
    There are files missing in the ‘base-4.10.1.0’ package,
    try running 'ghc-pkg check'.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
   |
13 | import Prelude

Check LDFLAGS in your makepkg.conf, the one shipped by arch does not have -pie.

Getting
/usr/bin/ld: -r and -pie may not be used together
since two or three weeks.

Probably an Arch bug or GHC shortcoming, though.

Shouldn't git be a makedepend? Currently building in a clean chroot fails because git is not automatically installed.

Thanks for providing the PKGBUILD, btw :)

I get the following error: :: xmonad-git: installing haskell-x11 (1.8-1) breaks dependency 'haskell-x11<1.8'

I'm not going to bother, it is trivial to just update the PKGBUILD for haskell-x11(-xft), and hopefully there is a new xmonad release soon™ so that haskell-x11 in the repos can get bumped anyway. But feel free to make haskell-x11-git if you like. Would require users to rebuild haskell-x11-xft too btw.

Thanks! I think having the dependency wrong for a few days for the sake of spending time with family is completely understandable :)
Should we make a haskell-x11-git package, perhaps, to avoid this situation?

Nothing I can do about haskell-x11 being too old in [community]. You can bump it yourself if you are not using anything that depends on <= 1.6. Was going to update the dep in the PKGBUILD earlier but then I got invaded by family. Stupid holidays.