On 16/09/2009 01:13, Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:00:12AM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
This unbreaks make install again.
Why are some parts of the build contantly broken?
I'd been meaning to send a mail about this, as 5 or 10 people have run
into problems in the last couple of weeks. I suspect the approaching
6.12 release is why so many people are trying it at the moment, rather
than it just being more broken than normal.
The short answer is: Because those parts of the build aren't important
for people working on GHC. Fixing compiler bugs, adding new features,
etc, doesn't require you to be able to install the compiler, make a
binary dist, make a source tarball, etc.
We could add this sort of thing to validate; in particular, I think
"make binary-dist&& make -C bindisttest" would be the most sensible
thing to add.
Currently validate takes me 27 mins (which is significantly higher than
it used to be, due to growth in a number of parts of the build, and in
particular building the dynamic libs). Making a binary dist takes a
little over 2 mins, and installing (or bindisttest) takes another
minute.
I think we could skip building the GHC package the dynamic way, that
would shave a few minutes off the validate time.
Cheers,
Simon
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