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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Simon,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Re-sending from the email address that’s allowed on the mailing list.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> Ugh. That's not a very happy state of affairs, is it? It didn't happen with 'make'.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">> Is it a fundamental problem, or just not yet fixed?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think this is not a fundamental problem, but the problem of getting dependencies right.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this case, the complexity comes from the fact that a single invocation of GHC produces a set of files, and which set depends on the command line flags, which are in turn determined dynamically by reading environment settings (specifically,
`platformSupportsSharedLibs`). <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Such rules are hard to describe precisely, because build systems are tuned to the typical case where we statically know, for every output file, which rule produces it -- recall the Tasks = k -> Maybe Task function from our paper. In this
case, we deal with something like k -> f (Maybe Task) instead, i.e. with `f` around the Maybe.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Make build system happens to do the right thing, somehow. I believe we should be able to express the same logic in Shake, but it's not easy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(I never really had a chance to look at dynamic builds, since they are not supported on Windows. I guess I should finally find a Linux box for Hadrian.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andrey<o:p></o:p></p>
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