ghci finding include files exported from other packages?

[Conal Elliott]

Thanks for the clarification, Duncan.  Seems an easy partial solution would
be a single pass (before CPP) that notices just the #include directives.
Consult the package database to find those packages.  That route would find
direct includes but not indirect ones.  An optional and still-easy next step
would be to look inside those includes for further #include directives.  I'm
unsure whether the cabal solution is as powerful as the single-level include
method or the recursive one.

   - Conal

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> 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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