[Haskell-beginners] Compiling with HDBC

[Daniel Fischer]

On Friday 13 May 2011 07:44:18, David McBride wrote:
> Use ghc --make.

This. You rarely need to specify libraries and packages with make.
For nontrivial projects, use Cabal.

> 
> I heard that the newest version of ghc uses --make implicitely so you
> don't have to specify it, but I haven't actually experienced it myself
> yet.

Yup, as of ghc-7, --make is the default (I still type it more often than 
not, muscle memory).