#8809: Prettier error messages? -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: joelteon | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.9 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): #8809,#10073,#10179 | Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by bgamari): Right, as rwbarton said, this is just a matter of editing the cabal file, which is generated by `autoconf` from `compiler/ghc.cabal.in`. Note that you will need to rerun `./boot` (or just edit `compiler/ghc.cabal` manually`) after doing this. It sounds like you have a reasonable start, Rufflewind. I would love it if someone pick up the proposal that I began laying out in comment:3. I think this would allow us to avoid baking too many formatting decisions into the compiler (which strikes me as something that we would regret) and instead defer them to the consumer of the message (which may very well be `ghc`'s own compiler driver). -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8809#comment:26 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler