I figured it out! theres a mini configure.ac generated by distrib/configure.ac.in thats used to setup the ghc settings file at install time!
https://github.com/cartazio/ghc/tree/cpp_silly-contrib-configure-in is my current set of patches, though it needs some rebasing, cleanup, and code review etcetc, will update the (admittedly too long ) trac ticket with this info On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wall...@me.com>wrote: > > On 23 Mar 2014, at 20:33, Carter Schonwald wrote: > > > Hey all, I'm trying to get my CPP_Setttings patch to validate, > > and i'm trying to understand why my validate is failing. At this point > im stumped and I really could use some help! > > > This looks like the key information: > > > Building xhtml-3000.2.1... > > Preprocessing library xhtml-3000.2.1... > > ghc: could not execute: > > Ghc is reporting that it could not execute "". This suggests the > commandline for external preprocessing is incorrectly formed. > > Regards, > Malcolm >
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