On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:31 -0500, Thomas Hartman wrote: > from my bash hints file: > > thart...@ubuntu:~/haskellInstalls/gitit>thartman_ghci_with_data_files > Loading a package with data files in ghci > See > http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2008/02/adding-data-files-using-cabal.html > Snip: > > The above method works well after a program has been installed, > but is harder to work with while developing a program. To alleviate > these problems, we can add our own Paths module to the program, for > example:
> > module Paths_hoogle where > > getDataFileName :: FilePath -> IO FilePath > getDataFileName = return another approach is to: export hoogle_datadir=$PWD because the standard Paths_hoogle module uses these environment variable overrides. Some day, someone is going to implement a "ghci mode" for cabal, to do the pre-processing and invoke ghci with all the right flags and env vars. See ticket #382. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
