Re: ghc-6.2.2: unknown package name: Main (again)

Gregory,

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:07, Gregory Wright wrote:
> No, I patched the hsshellscript library distribution to build using
> 
>       -package-name hsshellscript
> 
> as you mentioned. I still got the error. (The documentation
> asserts that -package-name is a no-op on unices anyway.
> I wonder if that is really still true?)

The name you provide with -package-name must wind up in the .hi files of
the *application* and the library you are compiling. I inadvertently
passed the file name of the package file as package name and it gave me
back the whole file name.

> That's why I said that the error message was confusing: I had
> already rebuilt using -package-name and still got an error.
> I think there was some module in my test application that
> was built by 6.2.1 and deleting its object and interface files
> fixed the problem. A slight API breakage from 6.2.1 to 6.2.2
> isn't all that surprising.

I doubt that it is versionitis. I'm only using the same 6.2.1 compiler
on Solaris.

Axel.