[GHC] #8197: telling people how to use GHC 7.6 correctly with Xcode 5/ OS X Mavericks

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#8197: telling people how to use GHC  7.6 correctly with Xcode 5/ OS X Mavericks
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        Reporter:  carter        |            Owner:
            Type:  bug           |           Status:  new
        Priority:  normal        |        Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler      |          Version:  7.6.3
      Resolution:                |         Keywords:
Operating System:  MacOS X       |     Architecture:  x86_64 (amd64)
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown  |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Test Case:                |       Blocked By:
        Blocking:                |  Related Tickets:
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Comment (by carter):

 luke ianni's wrapper (which we should explore cleaning up)
 can be found here
 https://gist.github.com/lukexi/e11668ced04524564a8b

 {{{

 import System.Environment
 import System.Process

 flags =
         [ "-Wno-invalid-pp-token"
         , "-Wno-unicode"
         , "-Wno-trigraphs"
         ]

 -- See if we're in preprocessor mode
 check args@("-E":"-undef":"-traditional":_) = replace args
 check other = other

 -- make sure we use assembler-with-cpp
 replace ("-x":"c":xs) = "-x":"assembler-with-cpp":replace xs
 replace (x:xs) = x:replace xs
 replace [] = []

 main = do
         args <- getArgs
         rawSystem clang $ flags ++ (check args)

 clang = "/usr/bin/clang" -- system clang
 --clang = "/usr/local/bin/clang" -- clang 3.4/HEAD
 --clang = "/usr/local/clang-3.0/bin/clang"
 --clang = "/Users/lukexi/bin/clang-3.2/bin/clang"
 --clang = "/Users/lukexi/bin/clang-3.3/bin/clang"

 }}}

 NOTE: this is for XCODE 5 / OS X Mavericks only.

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