dumb cabal question

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

Sven.Panne:
> Am Montag, 5. September 2005 08:13 schrieb Frederik Eaton:
> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 08:01:48PM -0700, Isaac Jones wrote:
> > > The reason to combine them is that the point of abstraction between
> > > the compilers / interpreters lives in areas like "preprocess this
> > > file", "build this file", "install this library", not in operations
> > > like you mentioned:
> >
> > I mentioned the second two of those, but not the first one.
> > Preprocessing files, however, doesn't sound like an operation that
> > needs to be done in a compiler/interpreter-specific way.
> > [...]
> 
> At least in a restricted sense it i*is* compiler/interpreter-specific, because 
> one has to #define some magic things like __HUGS__, __GLASGOW_HASKELL__, etc. 
> to get conditional compilation right.

Which reminds me, 'runhaskell Setup.hs haddock' doesn't seem to generate
output for code inside #if defined(__GLASGOW_HASKELL__). Poking around
in the source I see:

Distribution.PreProcess:
    hcDefines :: Compiler -> [String]
    hcDefines Compiler { compilerFlavor=NHC, compilerVersion=version }
      = ["-D__NHC__=" ++ versionInt version]
    hcDefines Compiler { compilerFlavor=Hugs }
      = ["-D__HUGS__"]
    hcDefines _ = []

Which seems to be missing a case?

-- Don