ghc-6.2.2: unknown package name: Main (again)

[Gregory Wright]

Hi Axel,

We are in violent agreement :-)

Greg

On Dec 2, 2004, at 4:05 AM, Axel Simon wrote:

> Gregory,
>
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:07, Gregory Wright wrote:
>> No, I patched the hsshellscript library distribution to build using
>>
>> 	-package-name hsshellscript
>>
>> as you mentioned. I still got the error. (The documentation
>> asserts that -package-name is a no-op on unices anyway.
>> I wonder if that is really still true?)
>
> The name you provide with -package-name must wind up in the .hi files 
> of
> the *application* and the library you are compiling. I inadvertently
> passed the file name of the package file as package name and it gave me
> back the whole file name.
>
>> That's why I said that the error message was confusing: I had
>> already rebuilt using -package-name and still got an error.
>> I think there was some module in my test application that
>> was built by 6.2.1 and deleting its object and interface files
>> fixed the problem. A slight API breakage from 6.2.1 to 6.2.2
>> isn't all that surprising.
>
> I doubt that it is versionitis. I'm only using the same 6.2.1 compiler
> on Solaris.
>
> Axel.
>
>
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