[haskell-llvm] pushing llvm-base with patched setup.hs to hackage

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 17 May 2013, Carter Schonwald wrote:

> if you need hugs support, please give us a patch that is of that cpp 
> style I've outlined that you've tested locally, as I and others don't 
> have access to hugs and i'm happy to help merge it in. In the mean time, 
> I think making sure that llvm bindings work on all current and near 
> future haskell platform releases takes priority over aesthetical 
> arguments against so.

These are no aesthetical arguments, it's not about supporting especially 
Hugs, it's about having a reliable configure phase in general. I am 
concerned about adding more points of failure (hacks, TH) into the build 
procedure that was always broken, and becomes even more broken now. It all 
looks like the usual "I do not understand, what this code does, so let's 
build a wrapper around it, such that the case, that I am concerned with 
works for now and if people are not happy about it, they may add more 
wrappers". Does anyone of us understand how these configure.ac and 
Setup.hs work individually and work together? Would you please explain 
what the part of Setup.hs does, that you changed? Would you please explain 
how Cabal changed that makes the current current Setup.hs unusable? Since 
the current configure procedure is broken, there might be a way that 1) is 
not broken, 2) works for old and new Cabal and 3) works without hacks and 
Template Haskell.