Replace the `--with-compiler` configure script argument with HC=/path/to/hc
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build-type: configure
type: enhancement
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See #2946, especially https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2946#issuecomment-164294686. Basically, the `./configure --with-compiler` interface that we use to pass the GHC location to the configure script is non-standard and error-prone, and should be phased out in favour of `HC=`.
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