Linking executables and the library of a Cabal package description

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 14:32 -0400, John D. Ramsdell wrote:
> I'm sure this will be an easy question for those on this list.  What
> do you need to add to a Cabal package description so as to allow an
> executable in the description to be built from the library it also
> describes?  I searched the Cabal documentation many times, but came up
> empty handed.

> Name:			a
> Version:		1.0
> Build-Depends:		base
> Exposed-Modules:	A
> 
> Executable:		b
> Main-Is:		Main.hs
> Other-Modules:		A
> Hs-Source-Dirs:		exec

I think the problem here is search paths. Try adding . to the
Hs-Source-Dirs, or alternatively moving everything into the root dir
rather than under exec.

This smells like a bug in cabal to me.

Duncan