Hi, I'm trying to generate automatic makefiles for my project using --make. Unluckily it seems ghc prefers .hs over .hi. The programs require a fair amount of separate libraries (Tcl/Tk, a Concurrent Haskell Debugger, a network wrapper,...) which I currently don't have to care much about: I just have to provide the corresponding top-level .hi and some .a-files to the ghc command line for compiling.
Is there any way to use ghc --make without having to provide access to all of the *source* files and make it use the pre-compiled stuff?
Yup, you have to put your pre-compiled stuff in a package. It's a bug in 5.00.1 that it requires the source file; I've fixed it properly in the HEAD as part of the library story, but it almost certainly won't be backported. Cheers, Simon