Great bug! This has been lurking quite a while. You'll be happy to hear that I've taken the opportunity to tidy up hi-boot handling quite a bit. In particular, as well as fixing this bug, I've also implemented hi-boot file consistency checking. When compiling M.hs, GHC will complain if M.hi-boot is inconsistent with it.
All this is in the HEAD. It's much too much to transfer to 6.2.2. If the bug below is a really major problem I might be able to hack up a fix, but I'd rather not. Just use a data type instead. Thanks for boiling this down into a nice small case. It saves a lot of time. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:glasgow-haskell-bugs- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Russell | Sent: 17 September 2004 10:31 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: GHC confused by hi-boot files | | With both ghc6.2 and 6.2.20040915 on Linux, ghc --make cannot compile | the attached files and produces a confusing error message. | | # ghc --make View.hs | Chasing modules from: View.hs | Compiling ViewType ( ./ViewType.hs, ./ViewType.o ) | Compiling VersionGraphClient ( ./VersionGraphClient.hs, ./VersionGraphClient.o )Compiling View | ( View.hs, View.o ) | | View.hs:14: | Couldn't match `VersionGraphClient' against `VersionGraphClient' | Expected type: VersionGraphClient | Inferred type: VersionGraphClient | In the `graphClient1' field of a record | In the record construction: View {graphClient1 = graphClient} | | However ghc without make has no problems. | | # ghc -c ViewType.hs | # ghc -c VersionGraphClient.hs | # ghc -c View.hs | | best wishes to all Simons! | | _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
