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"