On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 9:43 AM, harry <voldermort@hotmail.com> wrote:
According to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9720
 
, g++ isn't even
used for building. and "passing in gcc for CXX seems to work fine." Wonder
if that's changed.

It may be that some minimal amount of C++ support was added just to make it easier to link C++-generated objects into a Haskell program, but autoconf took that (perhaps with reason) as meaning do the full C++ testing bit so now you *must* have it around at configure time.

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