patch applied (ghc): Add special support for haskeline

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Thanks Judah!

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:cvs-ghc-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
| Judah Jacobson
| Sent: 30 April 2009 04:40
| To: Ian Lynagh
| Cc: cvs-ghc at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: patch applied (ghc): Add special support for haskeline
|
| On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
| > Wed Apr 29 11:19:09 PDT 2009  Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>
| >  * Add special support for haskeline
| >  The library uses stuff in Setup.hs to determine whether or not it needs
| >  to use -liconv. This patch replicates that logic in ghc-cabal. This
| >  isn't pretty, and we should find a better way to do it, but it works
| >  for now.
|
| Once the Unicode text I/O changes are integrated into HEAD, I'll work
| on making Haskeline use it when built with ghc>=6.12.  As a result,
| Haskeline shouldn't need to explicitly link against iconv when built
| with new ghc versions; so this patch will no longer be necessary.
| (The change will also probably remove the dependency on utf8-string.)
|
| -Judah
|
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