I agree, a better error message (or something less cryptic w.r.t. the new guy) would be very nice.
--Deniz 2009/4/10 Anatoly Yakovenko <[email protected]>: > Ah, bytestring was missing from the build-depends, > > what a confusing error message, can we change it to say > > "package Foo is missing from the MyPackage.cabal build-depends" > > would be a lot more obvious how to fix it. > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Anatoly Yakovenko > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am trying to build ParseP on the latest ghc, and i am getting this error: >> >> Text/ParserCombinators/ParseP/Interface.hs:26:17: >> Could not find module `Data.ByteString.Char8': >> it is a member of package bytestring-0.9.1.4, which is hidden >> >> what does "hidden" mean? why does this work in ghci >> >>> import Data.ByteString >>> import Data.ByteString.Char8 >>> >> >> without any problems >> > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
