Cabals' Paths_pkg and GHCi
Simon Marlow
simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 05:21:17 EST 2006
Vyacheslav Akhmechet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I took advantage of Cabal's data-files feature to allow me to portably
> store and access data files. Cabal generated a Paths_pkg module that I
> imported. From Cabal's point of view everything works: I can
> configure, build, install, and run. However, I can no longer use GHCi
> with the file that imports Paths_pkg - GHCi simply can't find the
> module.
>
> Is there a good way to fix this issue?
The Paths_foo.hs file is generated in a separate directory, something like
dist/autogen/ (I can't remember exactly, you should be able to find it). To get
GHCi to find it, you'll need to pass an appropriate -i <dir> flag.
Cheers,
Simon
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