The simplest thing to fix your case might be to emit an error when a library is built with no exposed-modules (why would you build it otherwise?)
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Alois Cochard <alois.coch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if that relate to this problem so please ignore me if not. > > I had to spend quite a lot of time understanding what the issue had, when as > you I had forget to add an entry for `exposed-modules` and trying to > build... > Basically I had an error saying that a symbol was missing or something like > that (can remember the exact message), but every time I have that issue it > take me a while to realise I have forget the entry... > > I think it's not a type error, it's kind of a linking error maybe that's why > the repl fail silently. > > Anyway, I was wondering if it would be possible to give a more helpful error > message in such case. > > Cheers > > > > > On 6 August 2014 15:18, cheater00 . <cheate...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have just spent some time trying to figure out why all of a sudden >> "cabal repl" silently exits without an error message. What helped was >> to take a project that could launch the repl and compare the cabal >> files to my new project. It turns out the exposed-modules entry was >> missing. I was wondering whether this behaviour was intentional, as I >> don't recollect this happening before, but I don't have older systems >> to test this on. >> >> The reason I wanted to run a repl without editing exposed modules was >> to test some dependencies I pulled in to the sandbox with cabal >> install. The package in question didn't have any code of its own yet. >> In this case I would just expect ghci to load with the Prelude. >> >> Thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >> Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > > > > > -- > Λ\ois > http://twitter.com/aloiscochard > http://github.com/aloiscochard _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
