[nhc-users] hmake: Getting compiler info at runtime and not relying on name for compiler type

[Malcolm Wallace]

Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> writes:

> Attached is a patch which does two things:
> 
> * Gets compiler type from the result of running a compiler if the first
>   3 letters aren't ghc|nhc|hbc|gcc. I wanted this for
>   /usr/bin/haskell-compiler.
> * If "hmake-config add-dyn" is used instead of "hmake add" then the
>   compiler information is not stored, but worked out dynamically when
>   used. This means /usr/bin/haskell-compiler can be the default hmake
>   compiler on a Debian installation and it doesn't matter if it is
>   really nhc98, ghc6 or ghc5, and there is no need to require specific
>   versions of the compilers.

Thanks for the contribution.  I am reviewing your code and will
incorporate it into hmake with perhaps a couple of tidy-ups.

Regards,
    Malcolm