Re: runghc takes modules from current working directory

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 12:41:32PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 20 August 2005 22:38, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It seems like it would be nice to have runghc not take modules from
> > the current working directory in many cases since it breaks
> > abstraction. It looks like it may be only a real problem for
> > debugging, when modules are supposed to be in a package somewhere, but
> > aren't, and the current directory happens to have files of the same
> > name, but in those cases it can be quite a pain to track down the
> > error. The problem comes up especially often when one writes scripts
> > in haskell to work with haskell packages or generate haskell code. Do
> > people frequently use the "find modules in the current directory"
> > feature, or could they be asked to do that with
> > 
> > {-# OPTIONS_GHC -i. #-}
> > 
> > ? (I don't think this works yet) Otherwise maybe a special option
> > could be added to tell runghc not to look in the current directory?
> > 
> > Frederik
> 
> runghc -i foo.hs?

I'm talking about "#!" scripts, for which the interpreter is hidden
from the user. I tried putting "#!/usr/bin/runghc -i" at the top of a
script and it failed with "Failed to load interface for `Main'"...

Frederik

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