GHCi is crashing when executed from a directory that has a Prelude.hs

Question

GHCi crashes when I try to start it from my src directory because it has a Prelude.hs file. I am not sure why this is happening though because I've set NoImplicitPrelude and I am doing a 'import "base" Prelude'

Here is my ghci.conf:

:set -XNoImplicitPrelude -XPackageImports

import "base" Prelude

Here is the GHCi output:

GHCi, version 7.6.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.

Top level:
    attempting to use module `Prelude' (./Prelude.hs) which is not loaded

Answer 1

The problem is that GHCi is loading the Prelude package before even looking at your .ghci config. So you can fix the problem by running:

ghci -XNoImplicitPrelude

which you could alias to ghci in your shell.