AFAIK, it is solely the (L)GPL licence issue. GHC central preferred to use/distribute the GPL'd gcc compiler rather than the GPL'd cpphs preprocessor. (No, it made no sense to me either.) Regards, Malcolm On 4 Nov 2013, at 09:40, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
Hello Malcolm,
On 2013-11-04 at 10:28:27 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
Of course, cpphs solved this problem nearly a decade ago.
Btw, what has been the reason it hasn't been adopted as bundled `cpp` replacement in the GHC distribution in the past? (if it remains a separate executable, its GPL licence shouldn't be an issue -- after all, ghc relies on the gcc executable which is GPL'ed too)
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