On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:36:32AM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>
> | Thu Aug 28 05:48:14 PDT 2008 Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | * Update the build system to handle building and using haddock2
> | One side-effect of this is that we need to build the install-utils with
> | stage2 rather than stage1 as we need the ghc package.
>
> This looks like another tricky point that might benefit from a clarifying
> comment to explain why we must build utils twice? (Or is it once but with
> stage2, I'm not sure.) It's so easy to forget these constraints.
This is explained here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Files#utilslibffi
but I'll add the explanation to utils/Makefile too. I'm not really sure
what docs are best where.
Thanks
Ian
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