On 2014-11-01 at 18:43:35 +0100, Ben Gamari wrote: [...]
>> This would mostly hurt if you cleaned up the tree later (e.g. 'make >> distclean'), which I do rather frequently in order to get a pristine >> build tree. >> > Ideally `make clean` would be a bit more complete so it could be used > more often. Much of my use of `make distclean` comes from superstition > after thinking `make clean` would be sufficient only to find out > half-way through the build that there is still vestigal state hanging > around. I regularly run ./validate, which by definition has to reset everything to a zero-state. Moreover, I keep a few GHC source-trees around, and wouldn't want to have to keep redundant LLVM binaries around. So using 'make clean' isn't an option for everyone. I'd rather install the required LLVM version system-wide (or rather, reachable via PATH), and have ./configure try to pick that one up, before deciding it needs to build its own LLVM. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
