I'm not sure if there's any standardisation effort or intent for .hi files, or whether they are likely to remain GHC-specific for the forseeable future, but I was wondering if there should be a standard UNIX directory to put them in. For instance:

.hi files used to be standardized but that requirement was removed in later versions of Haskell. I don't see what's wrong with putting them in the same directory as the .o file. In fact, given that the .hi and .o file must match exactly (i.e., be generasted from the same .hs file using the same compiler version and same compiler flags), I see many things wrong with putting them anywhere other than where the .o file is. -- Alastair Reid reid@cs.utah.edu http://www.cs.utah.edu/~reid/