[SOLVED] Xmonad on slack13 dependency install errors

returnzero · 01-20-2010, 12:41 PM

I've been trying to get Xmonad installed and keep running into dependency installation issues.

So far, I've used slackbuilds to get everything I need for Xmonad.
(I'm pretty new to linux still, but as far as I know, having 64bit slack shouldn't be an issue in running 32bit applications?)

I have-

ghc-6.12.1
haskell-mtl

The main issue I've had thus far is with the Haskell-X11 (1.5.0.0) dependency, I downloaded the slackbuild:

( http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13...s/haskell-X11/)

Proceeded to " ./haskell-x11 " and came up with this error in the terminal:

Code:

bash-3.1# ./haskell-X11.SlackBuild 
X11-1.5.0.0/
X11-1.5.0.0/LICENSE
X11-1.5.0.0/cbits/
X11-1.5.0.0/cbits/auxiliaries.c
X11-1.5.0.0/cbits/XUtils.c
X11-1.5.0.0/cbits/fdset.c
X11-1.5.0.0/X11.buildinfo.in
X11-1.5.0.0/configure
X11-1.5.0.0/configure.ac
X11-1.5.0.0/config.mk.in
X11-1.5.0.0/Setup.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Event.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Color.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Cursor.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Image.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Context.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Misc.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Extras.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Screen.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Region.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Window.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Display.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Atom.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Types.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib/Font.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xinerama.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/ExtraTypes/
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/ExtraTypes/HP.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/ExtraTypes/XF86.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/ExtraTypes/Sun.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/ExtraTypes/XorgDefault.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/ExtraTypes/DEC.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/ExtraTypes/AP.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Xlib.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/ExtraTypes.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11/Types.hsc
X11-1.5.0.0/Graphics/X11.hs
X11-1.5.0.0/include/
X11-1.5.0.0/include/HsAllKeysyms.h
X11-1.5.0.0/include/X11_extras_config.h.in
X11-1.5.0.0/include/HsXlib.h
X11-1.5.0.0/include/XlibExtras.h
X11-1.5.0.0/include/HsX11Config.h.in
X11-1.5.0.0/X11.cabal

Setup.hs:3:0:
    Warning: In the use of `defaultUserHooks'
             (imported from Distribution.Simple):
             Deprecated: "Use simpleUserHooks or autoconfUserHooks, unless you need Cabal-1.2
             compatibility in which case you must stick with defaultUserHooks"
Warning: defaultUserHooks in Setup script is deprecated.
Configuring X11-1.5.0.0...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-hc
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 
configure: error: in `/tmp/SBo/X11-1.5.0.0':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

I don't know where to go from here, any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks

indienick · 01-20-2010, 12:55 PM

The warning for Setup.hs (where it scorns the user of `defaultUserHooks') is nothing to be alarmed about - it's a warning, not an error.

Where I am concerned though, is with "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables".

Are you running the haskell-x11.SlackBuild script as root?

returnzero · 01-20-2010, 01:02 PM

Yeah I am running as root. The strange part is, the "cannont create exectuables" error has came up before more than once for different applications...

returnzero · 01-20-2010, 01:23 PM

Alright I finally figured this out.

I had a slight hunch if might have to do with the fact I'm using 64bit slack and it turns out it was.

After searching around for 64bit slackbuild install errors I came across this thread here:

(Post 4)- https://www.linuxquestions.org:443/q...ables-768900/?

and for future reference if for some reason that link doesn't work the answer to my question was from Alien_Bob -

Quote:

In order to compile ClamAV (or use other SlackBuild scripts from http://slackbuilds.org) you do not have to install 32-bit Multilib compatibility at all.

Just set the value of the ARCH variable in the SlackBuild script to "x86_64".

The error you describe is typical of a compilation effort where the script has ARCH incorrectly set to "i486".

Please read http://slackbuilds.org/faq/#x86_64 to get a better understanding of using our scripts on 64-bit Slackware.

Eric

So basically, just "nano slack_script_here" and change:

ARCH=${ARCH:-i486} to ARCH=${ARCH:-x86_64}

Hope this helps somebody!