On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:30 +0100, Dougal Stanton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Duncan Coutts > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So when ghc finds that one of your modules needs to import something > > that is not in one of the given packages it says that it's in another > > package that is 'hidden'. Of course it's only hidden because Cabal told > > ghc to hide them. > > Yes, it is one of those unfortunate error messages that says "I know > what the problem is *and* how to fix it, but I'm not going to". ;-)
Actually it's more like: "I know what the problem is but I cannot fix it. He knows how to fix it, but doesn't know there's a problem!" :-) GHC knows what the problem is but it's just following orders. Cabal gave the orders but doesn't know there is a problem. That's why it'll be fixed when Cabal does the dep chasing rather than delegating that to ghc --make. Cabal will then be able to either just pull in the (probably) right packages, or report the problem using the language of the problem domain and not the implementation. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
