cabal repl failing silently on missing exposed-modules

[Edward Z. Yang]

If you haven't already, go file a bug on
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues

Edward

Excerpts from cheater00 .'s message of 2014-08-06 15:18:04 +0100:
> 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!