[GHC] #3637: ./configure doesn't understand Gentoo's build/host/target

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#3637: ./configure doesn't understand Gentoo's build/host/target
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    Reporter:  kolmodin          |        Owner:                  
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  new             
    Priority:  high              |    Milestone:  6.12.1          
   Component:  Build System      |      Version:  6.12.1 RC1      
    Severity:  minor             |   Resolution:                  
    Keywords:  regression        |   Difficulty:  Unknown         
    Testcase:                    |           Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |  
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Changes (by igloo):

  * priority:  normal => high
  * difficulty:  => Unknown
  * milestone:  => 6.12.1

Comment:

 The way the build system now works, the build/host/target values must be
 known to the build system. They're normally extracted from the "ghc +RTS
 --info" output of the bootstrapping compiler, but you can give them as
 flags when necessary (e.g. when bootstrapping).

 So, I think we have 3 options:
  * Add normalisation back. This means we have to keep it up-to-date, so I
 would rather not do this
  * Close this as wont-fix
  * Ignore the `--{host,build,target}` flags, and use
 `--ghc-{host,build,target}` instead

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3637#comment:2>
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