cabal repl and the Paths_mypackage module

[copumpkin]

I'm not sure if this is intended behavior, but I'd expect the Paths_<mypackage> module to point somewhere meaningful when I'm running in cabal repl. It seems to point to my user directory when I'd expect it to point to the current package root.

[samdoshi]

Just to say that cabal run works fine, but cabal repl doesn't.

As a temporary work around you can set the enviroment variable <mypackage>_datadir, e.g.

$ export <mypackage>_datadir=$PWD
$ cabal repl

or

$ <mypackage>_datadir=$PWD cabal repl

(replace $PWD with the location of your data directory if it is not the current working dir)

[david-christiansen]

I just tried this out, and it's now pointing at the directory in my sandbox where cabal install puts files. The paths module points at the project root (or data dir) when using cabal run. I would expect those to agree, typically.

[Ericson2314]

The trick works for cabal repl for me. But I too get something dist-related for cabal run, so I assume that cabal run also sets the environment variable.

cc @kmicklas