[GHC] #8683: add "cpp program" and "cpp program options" to settings file

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#8683: add "cpp program" and "cpp program options" to settings file
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        Reporter:  carter            |            Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |           Status:  patch
        Priority:  highest           |        Milestone:  7.8.1
       Component:  Compiler          |          Version:  7.8.1-rc2
      Resolution:                    |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Test Case:                    |       Blocked By:
        Blocking:                    |  Related Tickets:  #8439
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Comment (by carter):

 I just got `validate --fast --no-dph`working,  with  configure as above
 -with-gcc=gcc-4.8 and --with-hs-cpp=gcc-4.8

 {{{


 Unexpected results from:
 TEST="cgrun071 objc-hi objcpp-hi haddock.base T3064"

 OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Sat Mar 22 23:57:35 2014 EDT
  0:27:29 spent to go through
     3903 total tests, which gave rise to
    15250 test cases, of which
    11683 were skipped

       28 had missing libraries
     3472 expected passes
       62 expected failures

        0 caused framework failures
        1 unexpected passes
        4 unexpected failures

 Unexpected passes:
    codeGen/should_run  cgrun071 (normal)

 Unexpected failures:
    driver/objc    objc-hi [exit code non-0] (normal)
    driver/objc    objcpp-hi [exit code non-0] (normal)
    perf/compiler  T3064 [stat not good enough] (normal)
    perf/haddock   haddock.base [stat not good enough] (normal)

 == Start post-testsuite package check
 Timestamp 2014-03-23 03:22:17 UTC for
 /Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/inplace/lib/package.conf.d/package.cache
 Timestamp 2014-03-23 03:22:17 UTC for
 /Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/inplace/lib/package.conf.d (same
 as cache)
 using cache:
 /Users/carter/Desktop/repoScratcher/ghc/inplace/lib/package.conf.d/package.cache
 == End post-testsuite package check
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Oops!  Looks like you have some unexpected test results or framework
 failures.
 Please fix them before pushing/sending patches.
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 }}}

 i'll try to do a validate run with clang, the gcc-4.8 will barf on
 objective C.

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