Build-Type: Custom vs cross-compilation

[BartMassey]

Unfortunately, because of GHC bug #1493, it is currently not possible to build unbounded-delays with a cross-compiler out of the box: the Setup.hs is compiled using the target compiler rather than the host compiler. Changing the build type to Simple fixes this, and it looks like all the custom Setup.hs does is some Haddock magic. Any chance of getting Build-Type: Simple into a version on Hackage?

[ezyang]

Agreed, the custom Haddock preprocessor is so not worth it. Can it please be ejected?

[angerman]

This ticket is not almost 30mo old. Can we finally drop the custom build type?

I see that #ifdef __HADDOCK__ is uses. Can't this be substituted by __HADDOCK_VERSION__?

Cabal also allows to detect when the source code is being used for
generating documentation. The __HADDOCK_VERSION__ macro is defined
only when compiling via Haddock_
instead of a normal Haskell compiler. The value of the
__HADDOCK_VERSION__ macro is defined as A*1000 + B*10 + C, where
A.B.C is the Haddock version. This can be useful for working around
bugs in Haddock or generating prettier documentation in some special
cases.
(source: Conditional Compilation in the developing-packages.rst)

[BartMassey]

2.5 years unaddressed, and no resolution in sight. It's like we're experiencing an...

Naw. Can't do it.

[basvandijk]

Sorry for the almost unbounded delay in fixing this. Released as unbounded-delays-0.1.1.0.

[BartMassey]

Thanks much!