Hey all, I'm trying to get my CPP_Setttings patch to validate,

and i'm trying to understand why my validate is failing. At this point im stumped and I really could use some help!

I'd appreciate some assistance digging into this,

the ticket in question is https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8683#comment:50

my current set of patches is https://github.com/cartazio/ghc/compare/ghc:ghc-7.8...rb_cpp_settings (rebased on top of current 7.8 branch)

and the confusing error in question is


== Start post-install package check
Timestamp 2014-03-23 17:32:46 UTC for /Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/bindisttest/install   dir/lib/ghc-7.8.0.20140323/package.conf.d/package.cache
Timestamp 2014-03-23 17:32:46 UTC for /Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/bindisttest/install   dir/lib/ghc-7.8.0.20140323/package.conf.d (same as cache)
using cache: /Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/bindisttest/install   dir/lib/ghc-7.8.0.20140323/package.conf.d/package.cache
== End post-install package check
===--- building phase 0
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_0_builds'.
===--- building phase 1
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=1 phase_1_builds
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `phase_1_builds'.
===--- building final phase
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=final validate_build_xhtml
cd libraries/xhtml && "/Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/bindisttest/install   dir/bin/ghc" --make Setup
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( Setup.hs, Setup.o )
Linking Setup ...
cd libraries/xhtml && ./Setup configure --with-ghc="/Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/bindisttest/install   dir/bin/ghc" --with-haddock="/Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/bindisttest/install   dir/bin/haddock" --enable-shared --disable-library-vanilla --disable-library-prof --global --builddir=dist-bindist --prefix="/Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/bindisttest/install   dir"
Configuring xhtml-3000.2.1...
cd libraries/xhtml && ./Setup build   --builddir=dist-bindist
Building xhtml-3000.2.1...
Preprocessing library xhtml-3000.2.1...
ghc: could not execute: 
make[1]: *** [validate_build_xhtml] Error 1
make: *** [validate_build_xhtml] Error 2

If someone could help me get to the bottom of this, I'd really really appreciate it.

-Carter