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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/patches/xmonad-dynamic-linking.patch16
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/wm.scm3
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/xmonad-dynamic-linking.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/xmonad-dynamic-linking.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f3386e53a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/xmonad-dynamic-linking.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+This patch is required for xmonad to make use of shared libraries.
+Without it, xmonad will not work since we do not (by default) use
+statically linked Haskell libraries.
+
+diff -ruN xmonad-0.15-a/src/XMonad/Core.hs xmonad-0.15-b/src/XMonad/Core.hs
+--- xmonad-0.15-a/src/XMonad/Core.hs	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
++++ xmonad-0.15-b/src/XMonad/Core.hs	1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+@@ -681,6 +681,8 @@
+        compileGHC bin dir errHandle =
+          runProcess "ghc" ["--make"
+                           , "xmonad.hs"
++                          , "-dynamic"
++                          , "-fPIC"
+                           , "-i"
+                           , "-ilib"
+                           , "-fforce-recomp"
diff --git a/gnu/packages/wm.scm b/gnu/packages/wm.scm
index bb5a91a230..15fbf43ec7 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/wm.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/wm.scm
@@ -655,7 +655,8 @@ desktop environment.")
                                   "xmonad-" version ".tar.gz"))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "0a7rh21k9y6g8fwkggxdxjns2grvvsd5hi2ls4klmqz5xvk4hyaa"))))
+                "0a7rh21k9y6g8fwkggxdxjns2grvvsd5hi2ls4klmqz5xvk4hyaa"))
+              (patches (search-patches "xmonad-dynamic-linking.patch"))))
     (build-system haskell-build-system)
     (inputs
      `(("ghc-extensible-exceptions" ,ghc-extensible-exceptions)