[xmonad] Re: Modular config

[Justin Bogner]

Spencer Janssen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:12:08PM -0600, Justin Bogner wrote:
>> recompile calls ghc --make, but supplies the -i argument, which 
>> suppresses including the current directory in the search path. This means 
>> that one can't break up xmonad.hs into modules in their own .xmonad 
>> directory.
>>
>> I don't see any particularly good reason to prevent this, so here's a 
>> patch that removes the -i argument. An equivalent change would be to 
>> change "-i" to "-i.", which explicitly sets the search path, but the ghc 
>> docs state that this is the default anyway, so I think that removing it 
>> makes more sense.
> 
> This is not compatible with case-insensitive file systems, such as those on OS
> X.  When the user writes 'import XMonad', GHC will attempt to use
> ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs rather than the installed library module.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Spencer Janssen

The case sensitive default filesystem on OS X angers me once again. 
Personally, I've reformatted to the case sensitive version of HFS, but I 
can see how this would be a concern.

If there is no way around this, I'm interested in making it work from 
within my xmonad.hs. I've tried using an OPTIONS_GHC pragma, but it 
doesn't seem to work. Is there something wrong with the following?

{-# OPTIONS_GHC -i. #-}

-- 
Justin Bogner