[Haskell-beginners] Using "cabal test" and getting "cabal: Prelude.read: no parse"

[Boris]

Hello,

Last time I got such an error, it was because I was using 'read' for a
type I had defined myself, deriving Read, but on something that was not
reelated to the type.  For instance:

data Foo = Foo deriving (Read, Show)

x :: Foo
x = read "Bar"

Do you use read somwhere?

HTH

Daniel King <daniel.zidan.king at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I created a cabal project with the attached cabal file. I run:
>
>   cabal configure --enable-tests
>   cabal build
>   cabal test
>
> and then I get the error:
>
>   cabal: Prelude.read: no parse
>
> I'm not sure how to debug this any further. If I execute:
>
>   ./dist/build/scientific-pl-testsStub/scientific-pl-testsStub
>
> with any input I've tried (numbers, array notation, string notation,
> etc.) and I get that same error.
>
> I can post the whole project if that is helpful.
>
> Thanks for the debugging tips!
>
> The full log is:
>
> danking at spock # cabal configure --enable-tests
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring scientific-pl-0.1.0.0...
> danking at spock # cabal build
> Building scientific-pl-0.1.0.0...
> Preprocessing test suite 'scientific-pl-tests' for scientific-pl-0.1.0.0...
> [1 of 3] Compiling SPLData          ( SPLData.hs, dist/build/SPLData.o )
> [2 of 3] Compiling SPLEval          ( SPLEval.hs, dist/build/SPLEval.o )
> [3 of 3] Compiling Tests            ( tests/Tests.hs, dist/build/Tests.o )
> In-place registering scientific-pl-tests-0.1.0.0...
> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             (
> dist/build/scientific-pl-testsStub/scientific-pl-testsStub-tmp/scientific-pl-testsStub.hs,
> dist/build/scientific-pl-testsStub/scientific-pl-testsStub-tmp/Main.o
> )
> Linking dist/build/scientific-pl-testsStub/scientific-pl-testsStub ...
> Preprocessing executable 'scientific-pl' for scientific-pl-0.1.0.0...
> [1 of 3] Compiling SPLData          ( SPLData.hs,
> dist/build/scientific-pl/scientific-pl-tmp/SPLData.o )
> [2 of 3] Compiling SPLEval          ( SPLEval.hs,
> dist/build/scientific-pl/scientific-pl-tmp/SPLEval.o )
> [3 of 3] Compiling Main             ( Main.hs,
> dist/build/scientific-pl/scientific-pl-tmp/Main.o )
> Linking dist/build/scientific-pl/scientific-pl ...
> danking at spock # cabal test
> Running 1 test suites...
> Test suite scientific-pl-tests: RUNNING...
> cabal: Prelude.read: no parse
> 1 danking at spock #

-- 
Boris Daix