problems building trhsx-0.2 with ghc-6.5.20050723

[Lemmih]

On 8/1/05, Konovalov, Vadim <vkonovalov at spb.lucent.com> wrote:
> I built and installed ghc-6.5.20050723 on Linux from sources successfully,
> and it looks quite normally-working.
> 
> I've stepped into a problem building trhsx from a package
> haskell-src-exts-0.2.tar.gz with a quite unexpected (for me) message:
> 
> Preprocessing executables for trhsx-0.2...
> Building trhsx-0.2...
> hsSourceDirs: ["."]
> Chasing modules from: Hsx.hs
> 
> Hsx.hs:6:7:
>     Could not find module `Data.List':
>       it is a member of package base-1.0, which is hidden
> 
> Lines in error is quite innocent-looking:
> import Data.List (intersperse, isPrefixOf)
> 
> GHC version 6.4 builds that module okay.
> 
> Is that error is due to beta version of ghc-6.5.20050723, or I am
> misunderstanding some configuration issues?

Cabal hides all packages when using GHC 6.5. Add 'base' to
build-depends in trhsx's cabal file and send a patch to the author.

-- 
Friendly,
  Lemmih