[Haskell-cafe] Get "cabal repl" to dump ghc options?

[Daniel Trstenjak]

Hi Carlo,

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 05:34:44AM +0000, Carlo Hamalainen wrote:
> The cabal repl command works out a bunch of GHC options. Is there any
> way to dump these options without actually starting the repl?
> 
> In particular, things like this:
> 
> ghcOptPackageDBs = [ GlobalPackageDB
>                    , SpecificPackageDB
> \"/home/carlo/foo/.cabal-sandbox/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.6.3-packages.conf.d\",SpecificPackageDB
> \"dist/package.conf.inplace\"
>                    ]

cabal-cargs[1] might be of help:

   $> cabal-cargs --format=pure --only=package_db
   /home/dan/projekte/layers/.cabal-sandbox/x86_64-linux-ghc-7.6.3-packages.conf.d


Greetings,
Daniel


[1] https://github.com/dan-t/cabal-cargs