[Haskell-cafe] Build regressions due to GHC 7.6

[Erik Hesselink]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:24 PM, wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> wrote:
> On 8/30/12 10:26 AM, Erik Hesselink wrote:
>> * Packages might not work with the new bytestring version, since the
>> API has breaking changes (although they're supposed to be minor).
>>
>> For the first two, you need to add some CPP, for the last, you need
>> actual testing.
>
> Actually, that can be more problematic than you suspect. In particular,
> hsc2hs does not play nicely with Cabal's MIN_VERSION_foo(1,2,3) macros. So
> if you're using hsc2hs, which is common for certain FFI uses, then you have
> to put up with the warnings or rely on the __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ macro in lieu
> of the MIN_VERSION_foo(1,2,3) macros. It's doable, but it's uglier and more
> hackish than it ought to be.

Ah yes, I found this out a while ago on one of my packages. As a tip
for those doing this: the value of __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ is xyy, with x
the first version component, and y the second. So, say, 7.4.2 has a
value of 704, not 742.

Erik