[mercury-users] mmc --make and -I option

Ian MacLarty maclarty at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Thu Feb 23 05:03:00 AEDT 2006


Hello,

In the mmc help message the -I option has the following description:

-I <dir>, --search-directory <dir>
        Append <dir> to the list of directories to be searched for
        imported modules.

However if I have the following program:

:- module test.
:- interface.
:- import_module io.
:- pred main(io::di, io::uo) is det.
:- implementation.
:- import_module test2.
main(!IO) :-
	test2.print(!IO),
	nl(!IO).

which includes the following module:

:- module test2.
:- interface.
:- import_module io.
:- pred print(io::di, io::uo) is det.
:- implementation.
print(!IO) :- io.write_string("hello\n", !IO).

and I put test2.m in a subdirectory of the directory test.m is in,
named test2, and then I try and compile test.m with the following
command:

mmc --make test -I test2

I get the following error:
** Error: error reading file `test2.m' to generate dependencies.
** Module `test2' is imported or included by module `test'.
mercury_compile: can't find source for module `test2'.

Why doesn't mmc find test2.m in the test2 directory?  I think it should
because of the value of the -I option I gave.

Is this a bug or do I need to compile the file in the test2 directory first?

Ian.
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