Sven Panne <Sven.Panne@aedion.de> writes:
(snip)
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.