Re: -pgmc/a/l default options, other ideas

> > I can imagine that we might need 'cl-options' in addition to 'cc-
> > options', though.
>
> If the purpose of -ccflavour is to encapsulate any number of
> different C compilers, then it would be easier and more general to
> add 'cc-flavour' to BuildInfo than to add, say:
>
> cl-options      MS CL
> scc-options     Sun 'CC' compiler (overlaps 'cc-options')
> xlc-options     IBM XL/C compiler
> ...

but having different fields for CL and GCC will tell to Cabal to use
the cl-options field for Windows and cc-options for Linux. With
cc-flavour you will force Cabal to always use CL which is unavailable
under Linux.

Cheers,
  Krasimir