[Haskell-cafe] ghc-mod and cabal targets

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 8 February 2013 22:25, Francesco Mazzoli <f at mazzo.li> wrote:
> At Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:39:19 +0100,
> CJ van den Berg wrote:
>> I downloaded your package and tried it. It does work.
>
> So, what I have is
>
>    bitonic at clay ~/src/kant (git)-[master] % cat .ghci
>    :set -isrc

Try also having ":set -isrc/dist" and possibly ":set
-isrc/dist/<package name>" (not on a machine with Haskell so I can't
test this); I think I've had to do something like that before.

>
> And I still get the mentioned error.  Did you take any other measures to make
> things work?  I’m using ghc-mod version 1.11.3.
>
>> Kant.REPL, which it is trying to load, is in the kant package. So it is
>> looking for either the installed kant package, or the source files for
>> the kant package modules.
>>
>> How is that not a package dependency? Telling it where to find the
>> source files will remove the need to find an installed kant package.
>
> OK, now I understand what you are doing: instead of making ghc-mod rely on
> cabal, you simply make it load the files directly.  Which is a bit annoying in
> my case because I have some files that need to be preprocessed (alex/happy), but
> it would still be better than nothing.  I can achieve the same result by simply
> moving the ‘cabal’ file, or by deleting the target.  I guess that the ‘.ghci’
> has (or should have) the same effect.
>
> Francesco
>
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