Re: cabal repl failing silently on missing exposed-modules

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 . wrote:

In the last email I meant that I don't see a reason to build a library without exposed-modules, sorry!

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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 wrote:

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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

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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

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:29 PM, cheater00 . wrote: like that's why

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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 . wrote:

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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.

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