On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:52:01AM -0500, Samuel Bronson wrote:

It looks like JHC doesn't support the CPP extension. It also looks like it tries to parse .cabal files by itself -- which doesn't work right with flags. Together, this makes it hard to compile quickcheck. (Mostly the former, though.)

jhc supports both cpp and m4 as preprocessors, use the '-fcpp' or '-fm4' options to enable them. I can pretty easily add support for the LANGUAGE pragma if that helps. The library format is not quite a cabal file, but rather just a subset. ideally ones build system (such as autoconf, or cabal-install, or cook, or whatever) would examine the current system and spit out an appropriate one to invoke jhc on. In the meantime, it is easy enough to modify a cabal file into a form jhc can grok until tools learn to cope. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈