Alp Mestanogullari authored Jun 24, 2019 and Marge Bot committed Jul 09, 2019

They take the general form `foo.bar.baz [+]= some values`, where
`=` completely overrides the arguments for a builder and `+=` extends
them. We currenly only support settings for updating the GHC and C
compiler options, of the form:

```
  {stage0, ..., stage3 or *}.{package name or *}
                            .ghc.{c, hs, link, deps, toolargs or *}.opts

  {stage0, ..., stage3 or *}.{package name or *}
                            .cc.{c, deps or *}.opts
```

The supported settings and their use is covered in the new section
of `hadrian/doc/user-settings.md`, while the implementation is explained
in a new Note [Hadrian settings].

Most of the logic is implemented in a new module, `Settings.Parser`, which
contains key-value assignment/extension parsers as well as utilities for
specifying allowed settings at a high-level, generating a `Predicate` from
such a description or generating the list of possible completions for a given
string.

The additi...