[Haskell-cafe] a couple of cabal related questions

[Dmitry V'yal]

On 12.10.2010 13:45, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:20, Dmitry V'yal<akamaus at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> recently I've cabalized my program and it brought some problems.
>>
>> First of all, I made use of 'import Paths_<package name>' functionality to
>> get the path of installed data files. It works great, but now I can no
>> longer run my program in ghci because this module is auto-generated by
>> cabal. I tried to supply my own. This way ghci works, but my stub module
>> gets compiled into the binary in place of auto-generated. And things break
>> again. What's the best way to overcome it?
>
> Create a file called .ghci in the directory where you run ghci and
> make it contains something like this:
>
> :set -idist/build/autogen
>
>> And another question. I'd like to make my program output it's version
>> string. Of course, I can hardcode it into sources, but I've already
>> specified one in the cabal file. Is there any way to get it back in the run
>> time?
>
> It's in Paths_<package name>  as the variable 'version'.
>
> /M
>

That's perfectly what I was looking for, thanks a lot!

By the way, the 'version' variable doesn't mentioned in Cabal user 
guide, or at least I missed it. Is it documented somewhere?