[Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

[wren ng thornton]

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Duncan Coutts
> <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> 
>> Not since then, no. However a lot of things work fine, especially if you
>> use a newer Cabal version.
> 
> 
> I've been unable to figure out how to build Cabal with Hugs 2006.09.04:
> 
> $ *runhugs -98 Setup configure --hugs --prefix=/usr*
> runhugs: Error occurred
> ERROR "./Distribution/Compat/ReadP.hs":70 - Syntax error in module
> definition (unexpected selector "#if")
> 
> The README file is GHC-centric, so I'm at a bit of a dead end. Do you have
> any suggestions?


That looks like a standard "CPP not enabled" error message. Try passing 
-F"$cpp" where $cpp is the command for running cpp as a filter. If the 
FFI is used anywhere, you need to compile with ffihugs before using hugs 
(see the man page).

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~wren