In the last email I meant that I don't see a reason to build a library without exposed-modules, sorry!
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:29 PM, cheater00 . <cheate...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
