ghci finding include files exported from other packages?
Duncan Coutts
duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Sun Mar 15 17:34:47 EDT 2009
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 09:13 -0700, Conal Elliott wrote:
> That did it. I've added ":set -package applicative-numbers" to
> my .ghci and am back in business. Thanks!
>
> IIUC, there's an inconsistency in ghci's treatment of modules vs
> include files, in that modules will be found without -package, but
> include files won't. Room for improvement, perhaps.
But that's because of the circularity I described. GHC can chase Haskell
imports because it can parse Haskell, but chasing CPP #includes would
require us to re-implement cpp. Perhaps we could do it by modifying
cpphs.
Duncan
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