Exposed module still hidden, why?

[J. Garrett Morris]

As I understand it, Cabal hides all packages by default.  If a package
is not in your dependencies, it won't be available to the build, no
matter the status in ghc-pkg.

(Incidentally, this had neat consequences in the past, since it means
that packages being hidden in ghc-pkg also does not make them
unavailable to cabal.  I spent some time at a previous employer
attempt to debug a build failure where it turned out that the
developer experiencing the failure had not pulled all the changes.  In
particular, we had packages A, B, and C, where C depended on A and B,
and B depended on A.  The developer had pulled updates to A and C, but
not B.  A built and installed a new version, hiding B (which was based
on an old version).  The developer the build C.  Cabal started with
everything hidden, then revealed A and B as specified by C's cabal
file, and the predictable build failures resulted.  I have not tried
this with GHC/Cabal builds since 6.4.2, so this is probably no longer
possible.)

 /g

On Nov 20, 2007 2:18 PM, Greg Fitzgerald <garious at gmail.com> wrote:
> Using GHC 6.8.1 on Windows XP, after having used ghc-pkg to expose
> 'directory-1.0.0.0', I am getting an error when I build haddock that says
> the package is hidden.  When I type "ghc-pkg list", the package is not in
> parenthesis.  Typing "ghc -v" says that it is using the file from
> "C:\ghc\ghc- 6.8.1\package.conf".  That package.conf file has the 'exposed'
> set to True for that file.  Why does GHC still think the package is hidden?
>
> ...\haddock-0.8>runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
> Configuring haddock-0.8...
>
> ...\haddock-0.8>runhaskell Setup.lhs build
> Preprocessing executables for haddock-0.8...
> shift/reduce conflicts:  5
> Building haddock-0.8...
>
> src/Main.hs:49:7:
>     Could not find module `System.Directory':
>       it is a member of package directory-1.0.0.0, which is hidden
>
> ...\haddock-0.8>ghc-pkg list
> C:/ghc/ghc-6.8.1\package.conf:
>     Cabal-1.2.2.0, HUnit-1.2.0.0, OpenGL-2.2.1.1, QuickCheck-1.1.0.0,
>     Win32-2.1.0.0, array-0.1.0.0, base-3.0.0.0, bytestring-0.9.0.1,
>     cgi-3001.1.5.1, containers-0.1.0.0, directory-1.0.0.0, fgl-5.4.1.1,
>     filepath-1.1.0.0, (ghc-6.8.1), haskell-src-1.0.1.1,
>     haskell98-1.0.1.0 , hpc-0.5.0.0, html-1.0.1.1, mtl-1.1.0.0,
>     network-2.1.0.0, old-locale-1.0.0.0, old-time-1.0.0.0,
>     packedstring-0.1.0.0, parallel-1.0.0.0, parsec-2.1.0.0,
>     pretty-1.0.0.0, process-1.0.0.0, random-1.0.0.0 ,
>     regex-base-0.72.0.1, regex-compat-0.71.0.1, regex-posix-0.72.0.1,
>     rts-1.0, stm-2.1.1.0, template-haskell-2.2.0.0, time-1.1.2.0,
>     xhtml-3000.0.2.1
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
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