Re: "#!..."

Sven Panne 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. peace, isaac