[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#750080: Forwarding this to upstream

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 21.09.2014, 11:33 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> > To reproduce this you don't need to log out. Just switch to a tty and
> > run:
> > $ xinit xmonad -- :1
> > (If you have more than one xserver running you might need to change
> > the :1 to some higher number)
> 
> True... 
> 
> But: The same using an unpatched xmonad works:
> $ cabal unpack xmonad
> $ cd xmonad-0.11
> $ cabal build
> $ xinit $PWD/dist/build/xmonad/xmonad -- :1
> 

More information: Without ./xmonad/, xmonad starts properly in both
cases: You can e.g. fire up a terminal with Shift-Alt-Enter. But the
system-wide installed xmonad will display the execution error using
"xmessage", while the cabal-installed xmonad will print the same error
on stderr (visible if you use xinit to start it).

This is weird, as xmessage is (as far as I can tell from the code) only
used when compilation fails, not when executing the xmonad binary.

All very strange; anyone interested in digging deeper?

Greetings,
Joachim

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