Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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Not since then, no. However a lot of things work fine, especially if you use a newer Cabal version.

I've been unable to figure out how to build Cabal with Hugs 2006.09.04:

$ *runhugs -98 Setup configure --hugs --prefix=/usr* runhugs: Error occurred ERROR "./Distribution/Compat/ReadP.hs":70 - Syntax error in module definition (unexpected selector "#if")

The README file is GHC-centric, so I'm at a bit of a dead end. Do you have any suggestions?

That looks like a standard "CPP not enabled" error message. Try passing -F"$cpp" where $cpp is the command for running cpp as a filter. If the FFI is used anywhere, you need to compile with ffihugs before using hugs (see the man page). -- Live well, ~wren