#3226: please eliminate error message from Make on every build
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Reporter: nr | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Build System | Version: 6.11
Severity: minor | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Os: Unknown/Multiple
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple |
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Changes (by nr):
* severity: trivial => minor
Comment:
Two comments:
* Regarding the speed of the build, I think it is really worth exploring
Glenn Fowler's nmake. nmake is engineered by real engineers to be
portable and to work at scale. It is entirely possible that it might make
the safe path also fast. It could even make it possible (although time-
consuming and tedious) to eliminate the separate 'configure' step. What
do you think of this as a possible student project?
* Having established the safe but slow path, is there a way to make it
less noisy? In particular, is there a way to change ghc/ghc.mk so that it
does ''not'' bleat if the dependency file is missing? I have upgraded
severity to 'minor' (from 'trivial') because this error message interrupts
my workflow in emacs ({{{C-x `}}} now has to stop at an extra error
message... sometimes).
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3226#comment:7>
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