Loading GHC into GHCi (reprise)

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

Recently Richard showed us how to load GHC into CHCi which ended up
being documented here:

    https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Debugging/Compiler

That very useful for some things, but doesn't give you access to
symbols and types that have not been exported.

Specifically, I'm interested in some of the inner workings of the
file `compiler/llvmGen/LlvmCodeGen.hs` and I've even managed to
load it into GHCi using the command line:

    inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 --interactive  -ignore-dot-ghci -fobject-code \
       -DSTAGE=1 -i -icompiler/basicTypes -icompiler/cmm -icompiler/codeGen \
      -icompiler/coreSyn -icompiler/deSugar -icompiler/ghci -icompiler/hsSyn \
      -icompiler/iface -icompiler/llvmGen -icompiler/main -icompiler/nativeGen \
      -icompiler/parser -icompiler/prelude -icompiler/profiling -icompiler/rename \
      -icompiler/simplCore -icompiler/simplStg -icompiler/specialise -icompiler/stgSyn \
      -icompiler/stranal -icompiler/typecheck -icompiler/types -icompiler/utils \
      -icompiler/vectorise -icompiler/stage1/build -icompiler/stage1/build/autogen \
      -Icompiler/stage1/build -Icompiler/stage1/build/autogen -Icompiler/.  \
      -Icompiler/parser -Icompiler/utils -Icompiler/stage1 -XHaskell2010 \
      compiler/llvmGen/LlvmCodeGen.hs

and it loads all the modules require, but then seems to mess up the symbol
table so that it can't even find top level functions in the module it has
just loaded. 

    Prelude LlvmCodeGen> :t LlvmCodeGen.cmmDataLlvmGens

    <interactive>:1:1: error:
        Not in scope: ‘LlvmCodeGen.cmmDataLlvmGens’
        No module named ‘LlvmCodeGen’ is imported.

I even tied adding `-icompiler/llvmGen` to the above command line (from
hell) before I noticed that it was already present.

Anyone have any idea why this doesn't work?

Erik
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