Re: Importing instances without pangling Make

2000-02-28 Thread George Russell
Part of the problem right now seems to be that GHC is wrongly rewriting (or perhaps touching) the .hi file even though nothing in it is altered. (This is clear because -hi-diffs is also on and not reporting anything). Thus even though I'm using -Onot -recomp it's still recompiling everything.

RE: Importing instances without pangling Make

2000-02-28 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| At the time of writing, I am waiting for yet another long | Haskell re-make of | lots of modules to complete. The frustrating thing is, that | at least 90% of these | remakes are actually completely unnecessary. I've often wondered how to improve this. I'm very reluctant to duplicate info

RE: Importing instances without pangling Make

2000-02-28 Thread Simon Marlow
> Sigbjorn Finne wrote: > > > > Seems like you're not using -recomp. > No I'm not. What about documenting it somewhere? Good point. I'll add a note about it. Perhaps -recomp should be the default? Cheers, Simon

RE: Importing instances without pangling Make

2000-02-28 Thread Simon Marlow
> There is another less serious problem. Suppose that B had > imported C only > to export it again (either by listing it in the export list, or not > having any export list at all). However I think the best way to deal > with this is simply to copy over all the types and other information > fro