-main-is flag should change exports in default module header
The -main-is option to GHC should probably change the export list for the default module header. It doesn't.
$ cat Main.hs
program = return ()
$ ghc -main-is Main.program Main.hs
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Main.hs, Main.o )
Main.hs:1:1: error:
Not in scope: ‘main’
Perhaps you meant ‘min’ (imported from Prelude)
Main.hs:1:1: error:
The main IO action ‘program’ is not exported by module ‘Main’I cannot imagine any possible use case for a feature that changes the entry point name to something else, and then deliberately fails to export the symbol by that name. This seems like an obvious thing to fix.
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| Type | FeatureRequest |
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| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
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