xmonad doesn't seem to produce any errors if .xmonad/xmonad.hs has no 'main'

I can't haskell my way out of a paper bag, but the config file is obvious enough that I've been able to make the tweaks I wanted without trouble.. Installing 0.8 on this box after having not used xmonad for a while, I was an ignorant user and assumed I could copy XMonad/Config.hs to .xmonad/xmonad.hs and edit it (last time I used xmonad, configuration was editing Config.hs in place before building, so this wasn't much of a stretch..) No main in the Config.hs, so xmonad-i386-linux was never built, only xmonad.o. While this was obviously user error, it seems unhelpful that the only error message produced at all was the one telling me that executeFile couldn't run xmonad-i386-linux. xmonad --recompile produced no output, and while it created xmonad.errors, the file was empty. It'd be swell if xmonad reported errors when it fails to produce an executable; hardly a bug, but it couldn't hurt.. -- Ian Kilgore print/42; # n/,"Just another Perl hacker,\n"
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