#158: if os(windows) does not work ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: Cabal-1.2 Component: Cabal | Version: 1.2.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Ghcversion: 6.4.2 Platform: Linux | ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- The {{{os}}} condition currently uses the {{{System.Info.os :: String}}} to check if we're on the OS specified. This is bad and wrong since in GHC at least on Windows this string is {{{"mingw32"}}}. For configurations it's ok if this works: {{{ if os(mingw32) blah }}} but it's essential that this works: {{{ if os(windows) blah }}} At a bare minimum we should add an alias system, such that we can specify {{{windows}}} and {{{solaris}}} rather than the cryptic {{{mingw32}}} and {{{solaris2}}}. I suggest that comparisons also be case insensetive. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/158 Hackage http://example.com/ My example project