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Cabal options get overwritten by commandline options #52
hdevtools takes both GHC options from the cabal file of a project and on the commandline and appens the commandline options BEHIND the cabal options. However, this leads to annoying behaviour when using hdevtools together with, e.g. vim-hdevtools or syntastic which use a global "hdevtools_config" variable.
The problem is this:
If, in my vim config, I have the options -Wall -Wno-unused-do-binds (the default flags I want to use for checking haskell files in the absence of a cabal config) these get appended AFTER the options hdevtools has parsed from my cabal file. Suppose my cabal file has -Wall -Wno-unused-do-binds -Wno-orphans, then appending the -Wall -Wno-unused-do-binds from my vim config ends up overwriting the more project specific -Wno-orphans in my cabal file.
Solutions:
Append cabal options AFTER the commandline GHC options, letting the more specific options dominate. Pros: Trivial change. Cons: Maybe someone DOES want to override the cabal options on the commandline
Add a new way of specifying "default" GHC options, which are only used if no options are succesfully gotten from cabal.
Shouldn't your command line options be merged with the cabal options? i.e. calling ghc with -Wall -Wno-unused-do-binds -Wno-orphans -Wall -Wno-unused-do-binds and effectively -Wno-orphans -Wall -Wno-unused-do-binds
Or said differrently: I would expect in your example that the not overridden option from the cabal file (-Wno-orphans) to be passed to ghc - is this not the case?
Okay I guess I understood your situation. Still I am unsure whether this is really the solution. Can you have a look at #59 and how this scenario would relate to that .hdevtoolsrc feature, i.e. how do you expect precedence of compiler options?
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ch1bo commentedon Jun 21, 2017
Shouldn't your command line options be merged with the cabal options? i.e. calling ghc with
-Wall -Wno-unused-do-binds -Wno-orphans -Wall -Wno-unused-do-bindsand effectively-Wno-orphans -Wall -Wno-unused-do-bindsOr said differrently: I would expect in your example that the not overridden option from the cabal file (
-Wno-orphans) to be passed to ghc - is this not the case?merijn commentedon Jun 22, 2017
Currently it just naively concats both sets of options and since the second set includes -Wall this overrides the earlier
-Wno-xflags.Later flags override earlier flags for warnings, so
-Wno-x -Wallis just-Wallch1bo commentedon Aug 18, 2017
Okay I guess I understood your situation. Still I am unsure whether this is really the solution. Can you have a look at #59 and how this scenario would relate to that
.hdevtoolsrcfeature, i.e. how do you expect precedence of compiler options?