Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects

Flag to instruct GHC not to use an environment file

    • Closed Issue created by Richard Eisenberg @rae

    As the user manual documents, GHC looks for environment files in the current directory to tell it what packages to look for. There seems to be no way to disable this behavior (short of deleting or renaming the environment file). This causes trouble for me, as I expect ghci to mean the same thing no matter where I say it.

    Can we add a flag (perhaps -no-package-env) that tells GHC not to look for an environment file? Note that specifying a dummy package environment file doesn't work because we can't suppress the implicit -hide-all-packages that is triggered whenever using a package environment.

    Trac metadata
    Trac field Value
    Version 8.6.3
    Type FeatureRequest
    TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
    Priority normal
    Resolution Unresolved
    Component Compiler
    Test case
    Differential revisions
    BlockedBy
    Related
    Blocking
    CC
    Operating system
    Architecture
    Edited
    To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information

    Child items 0

    • No child items are currently assigned. Use child items to break down this issue into smaller parts.

    Activity

    Please register or sign in to reply