I do this using a .ghci file. For Hoogle I have a file called Paths.hs with the module name Paths_hoogle and stub exports. I then have my .ghci file as:
:load Main.hs Paths.hs Now Paths.hs will never interfere, or be picked up in ghc --make, because it has the wrong name - but is used in ghci. Thanks, Neil On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Antoine Latter <aslat...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic > <ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 13 October 2010 02:00, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org> wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 15:34, Dmitry V'yal <akam...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> By the way, the 'version' variable doesn't mentioned in Cabal user >>>> guide, or >>>> at least I missed it. Is it documented somewhere? >>> >>> I don't know, I think I found it in the source more or less by mistake >>> :-) >> >> Yeah, I think that's the common consensus; there is _some_ >> documentation of the Paths_foo module in the Cabal user guide, but it >> doesn't cover much. >> >> One thing I do wish was possible: the ability to use a "stub" >> Paths_foo module for testing purposes (as currently you have to have >> done a "cabal configure && cabal build" to get it), but I couldn't >> find a way to do so without Cabal packaging the stub version when >> creating the distribution tarball :s >> > > I've used CPP, something like: > > module MyPaths > ( export contents of Paths_magic ) where > > #ifdef SOME_DEF_SET_BY_CABAL > import Paths_magic > #else > > mock implementation of paths magic here > > #endif > > Then in your .cabal file declare the define which causes it to use the > real magic paths module. When not compiling via cabal, you'll at least > have something sensible (like the current directory or something). > > I'm pretty sure I didn't make this up, but I have used it. It's a bit > of a pain to set up, though. > > Antoine > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
