xmonad --recompile is broken with cabal change

[Gleb Popov]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 9:44 PM Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/31/19 10:34 AM, Gleb Popov wrote:
> > I just tried out `xmonad --recompile` in FreeBSD 12 jail and it worked
> > fine with sample config.
> >
> > Despite xmonad package ending up in /usr/local/lib/cabal/ghc-8.6.5, it
> > is listed in `ghc-pkg list` output.
> >
> > Have you tried reinstalling the package or GHC itself?
>
> That was the issue. I hadn't gone and re-installed everything, and so
> nothing had been registered in ghc-pkg.
>

I'm hoping to fix this someday. IIRC, xmonad is the last package in our
ports tree affected by this problem.
Good to hear you've fixed the issue.


> Thanks for the tip.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
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