On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 10:15 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 07 December 2004 09:57, Keean Schupke wrote:
Also a section like gentoo's make.conf (for ebuilds) where local options can be set in a file (for things like optimisation flags etc)...
I might be on my own here, but I happen to think that the way Gentoo encourages you to have local optimisation flag settings is complete madness. Probably the only good thing that can be said for it is that it's given the gcc developers a lot of good testing.
I don't think we want to do this for Haskell, it introduces one more way for things to go wrong, and one more thing to forget in a bug report.
Yes, it's been common in gentoo land in recent years for ebuilds to ignore the user supplied CFLAGS entirely or strip out certain flags to stop people from shooting themselves in the foot. Unlike for C, for Haskell compilers there are fewer interesting optimisation or platform specific flags (think -O?, -march=???, -fbe-really-sloppy-with-floating-point etc etc). This is a good thing since there is less desire to fiddle. I agree, for our various Haskell ebuilds we do not provide any easy way for users to override HCFLAGS. Duncan