Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:09:07AM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| > so ./boot calls basically autoreconf?
|
| Yes, for the root of the tree, and also for any libraries that need it.
|
| In the new build system it also creates little Makefiles for each of the
| libraries.
Is that necessary. Can't those little Makefiles simply be part of the source
tree? One less thing to go wrong. In general we are trying *not* to generate
Makefiles in the new setup.
It's a really tiny makefile:
$ cat libraries/directory/ghc.mk
libraries/directory_PACKAGE = directory
$(eval $(call build-package,libraries/directory,dist-install,1))
We could put them in the source tree, but I think that then things would
be more likely to go wrong, as things could get out of sync.
Also, there are no actual rules in the generated makefiles, which I
thought is what we were trying to avoid.
Also, I don't think we want to be putting GHC-specific Makefiles into
packages that are supposed to be compiler-independent Cabal packages.
For the rest of the GHC tree we can put the stub makefiles directly in
the repository, and I believe that's what we should do. I imagine that
some of these stub makefiles will have special directory-specific stuff
- for example, when making stage1 in compiler/ we can omit some of the
phases.
Cheers,
Simon
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