On Friday 30 March 2007 15:29, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Fri Mar 30 06:22:49 PDT 2007  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   * jiggle with cpp magic
>   The use of cpp macros _as well as_ conditionals to define which
>   modules to import is horrible.  More to the point, it breaks hmake,
>   which (for good reason) only supports conditionals not macros.  Since
>   the conditional-only mechanism is equal in power, there's no reason to
>   use the more general macro facility.
>
>     M ./System/FilePath.hs -4 +4

The current state of things is not much better: Due to the CPP trickery, the 
GHC build system misses dependecies on the internal module. I can understand 
the motivation behind all this preprocessing magic, but we have to solve this 
differently somehow...

Cheers,
   S.
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