patch applied (packages/filepath): jiggle with cpp magic

[Sven Panne]

On Friday 30 March 2007 15:29, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Fri Mar 30 06:22:49 PDT 2007  Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
>   * jiggle with cpp magic
>   The use of cpp macros _as well as_ conditionals to define which
>   modules to import is horrible.  More to the point, it breaks hmake,
>   which (for good reason) only supports conditionals not macros.  Since
>   the conditional-only mechanism is equal in power, there's no reason to
>   use the more general macro facility.
>
>     M ./System/FilePath.hs -4 +4

The current state of things is not much better: Due to the CPP trickery, the 
GHC build system misses dependecies on the internal module. I can understand 
the motivation behind all this preprocessing magic, but we have to solve this 
differently somehow...

Cheers,
   S.