reversion in building on windows

[joeyh]

2.4.2.1 fails to buid on windows, using the Haskell Platform and mingw. Looking at config.log, it seems that since my gcc is in C:\Program Files\whatever, it tries to run that full path, but without proper quoting, so it ends up complaining that C:\Program is not a executable.

2.4.1.2 builds in windows, in the identical build environment. Or at least the configure script works.

[hreinhardt]

I suspect this may be caused by this pull request of mine: #104
You may want to try reverting that change (and then run 'autoreconf') and see if it fixes the problem.

[tibbe]

@joeyh and @hreinhardt since I don't have a Windows install currently, could the two of you please try to work it out together? I'm afraid that we might need to roll back #104 otherwise, as I think "Program Files" is in the default install path of the HP on Windows.

[hreinhardt]

I was able to reproduce this and it indeed is caused by #104. I think the root of the problem lies in cabal-install not quoting the path in the --with-gcc parameter; but even if we'd fix that, people with older versions of cabal-install would hit this problem. So right now the best fix is reverting #104.

[tibbe]

I've reverted #104 in 5d56212 and filed issue haskell/cabal#1634.