[nhc-bugs] Patches for building NHC98 with current GHC

[Malcolm Wallace]

Hi Sven,

> To build NHC98 1.12 with a current (= from CVS) GHC, two patches have to
> be applied:
> 
>     * PrelBase has gone and there are probably *very* few people out
>     there  (if any :-) with an ancient GHC <= 2.02, so the lines which
>     make hmake  fail can simply be nuked.

You didn't provide an example of why a current GHC fails on these lines,
but I suppose it is indeed unlikely that anyone has a GHC <= 2.02.

>     * Besides other things, -fglasgow-exts switches on the handling of
>     implicit  paramters and the syntax %foo for linear implicit
>     parameters. Alas, a space  is missing then in LexLow.hs.

An easier fix is just to remove -fglasgow-exts from the Makefile!

Regards,
    Malcolm