Re: "#!..."

Isaac Jones wrote:

Sven Panne writes:

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I'd really be happy to learn how the problems mentioned above could be solved without autotools or basically re-inventing autotools, seriously. I hate writing obscure lines in M4 and sh probably as much as you do, but I can't see a viable alternative. Rewriting all this stuff (plus all the utilities used in the macros!) in Haskell doesn't look very attractive and realistic...

I should point out that re-inventing autotools has never been a goal of Cabal. We do work to detect a few things, like the ghc version and such, but I don't see this expanding into a reimplementation of autotools. We have the ability to interface with autotools, though, which I think is appropriate.

I didn't intend to say or imply anything about Cabal and autoconf. Sorry about any confusion. I was talking about autoconf in general. I argued (still arguing :-) ) that autoconf is not the best way to handle platform variations. Sven argued that, if I did use my concept, I'd end up reimplementing autoconf. (I still don't buy this. :-) ) Again, sorry for any confusion; personally, sorry for being unclear. Seth Sven: It is probably a good idea to take this to it's own thread. Seth

peace,

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