RE: [ ghc-Bugs-952398 ] Windows compiler assumes (wrongly) TH when using ($)

On 14 May 2004 10:30, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> Well, it is just a different kind of bug.  It can be quite confusing
> that, even though /my/ program does not use -fglasgow-exts, and
> perhaps neither does any package I mention directly, some other
> package 
> lower down the dependency chain does, and this somehow switches on
> -fglasgow-exts when parsing my program, without my knowledge.

This is exactly why I think that the extra_XXX_flags field should be
removed from the package spec.  We made a mistake by providing it in the
first place, but we can take the opportunity to fix this with the
library infrastructure changes.

Cheers,
        Simon