Because it's actually not with a library but when building an executable, sorry I should have specified that.
On 6 August 2014 22:31, cheater00 . <cheate...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- *Λ\ois* http://twitter.com/aloiscochard http://github.com/aloiscochard
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