Hi Brian, Sorry for the delayed response.
> My goal is to write a program GhcRemake that works like "ghc --make." > However, instead of terminating after compilation is done, I want the > program to stay open and wait for me to hit <ENTER>. When I hit > <ENTER>, GhcRemake rebuilds the project, just as if I had called "ghc > --make" again with the same arguments. The benefit of such a program > is that GhcRemake should be able to cache a lot of data in memory > between invocations and hopefully be able to do the subsequent > re-makes much faster. Nice idea! > My program seems to work fine when run on itself and when run on > Cabal. But, these two packages seem to be too small to notice any > reduction of building time. So, I decided to test my program by > building the GHC API with it. Unfortunately, it seems like every build > after the first one in the session does the dependency analysis badly, > and things get recompiled unnecessarily. It looks like the problem is caused by recursive module imports. I've added a bug (#1027) with a smaller example of it. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
