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Contents
Compiler flavor Compiler id
Description
This has an enumeration of the various compilers that Cabal knows about. It also specifies the default compiler. Sadly you'll often see code that does case analysis on this compiler flavour enumeration like:
     case compilerFlavor comp of
       GHC -> GHC.getInstalledPackages verbosity packageDb progconf
       JHC -> JHC.getInstalledPackages verbosity packageDb progconf
Obviously it would be better to use the proper Compiler abstraction because that would keep all the compiler-specific code together. Unfortunately we cannot make this change yet without breaking the UserHooks api, which would break all custom `Setup.hs` files, so for the moment we just have to live with this deficiency. If you're interested, see ticket #50.
Synopsis
data CompilerFlavor
= GHC
| NHC
| YHC
| Hugs
| HBC
| Helium
| JHC
| OtherCompiler String
buildCompilerFlavor :: CompilerFlavor
defaultCompilerFlavor :: Maybe CompilerFlavor
parseCompilerFlavorCompat :: ReadP r CompilerFlavor
data CompilerId = CompilerId CompilerFlavor Version
Compiler flavor
data CompilerFlavor | Source
Constructors
GHC |
NHC |
YHC |
Hugs |
HBC |
Helium |
JHC |
OtherCompiler String |
Instances
Eq CompilerFlavor
Ord CompilerFlavor
Read CompilerFlavor
Show CompilerFlavor
Text CompilerFlavor
buildCompilerFlavor :: CompilerFlavor | Source
defaultCompilerFlavor :: Maybe CompilerFlavor | Source
The default compiler flavour to pick when compiling stuff. This defaults to the compiler used to build the Cabal lib. However if it's not a recognised compiler then it's `Nothing` and the user will have to specify which compiler they want.
parseCompilerFlavorCompat :: ReadP r CompilerFlavor | Source
Like `classifyCompilerFlavor` but compatible with the old ReadS parser. It is compatible in the sense that it accepts only the same strings, eg GHC but not ghc. However other strings get mapped to `OtherCompiler`. The point of this is that we do not allow extra valid values that would upset older Cabal versions that had a stricter parser however we cope with new values more gracefully so that we'll be able to introduce new value in future without breaking things so much.
Compiler id
data CompilerId | Source
Constructors
CompilerId CompilerFlavor Version |
Instances
Eq CompilerId
Ord CompilerId
Read CompilerId
Show CompilerId
Text CompilerId
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