Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Binaries with Cabal

Hi

let mydescrip = case System.Info.os of "mingw32" -> descrip _ -> descrip {buildDepends =

Arrrrggggghhhhhhh! To test if the operating system is windows you compare against a hard coded string which _isn't_ an OS, but _is_ an optional component by a 3rd party. It's required to build some Haskell compilers, but for Yhc and Hugs its not required at any stage, and its presence is optional! I know this isn't your fault, it just scares me deeply that "os" could return something that isn't an os! How about we add a cpu string, which returns the amount of RAM installed. Or how about we add a compiler string, which returns the users surname... Thanks Neil