cabal repl failing silently on missing exposed-modules

cheater00 . cheater00 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 14:18:04 UTC 2014


Hi,
I have just spent some time trying to figure out why all of a sudden
"cabal repl" silently exits without an error message. What helped was
to take a project that could launch the repl and compare the cabal
files to my new project. It turns out the exposed-modules entry was
missing. I was wondering whether this behaviour was intentional, as I
don't recollect this happening before, but I don't have older systems
to test this on.

The reason I wanted to run a repl without editing exposed modules was
to test some dependencies I pulled in to the sandbox with cabal
install. The package in question didn't have any code of its own yet.
In this case I would just expect ghci to load with the Prelude.

Thanks!


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