patch applied (ghc): Don't rebuild things with the stage2 compiler

Manuel M T Chakravarty chak at cse.unsw.edu.au
Tue Jun 24 00:54:21 EDT 2008


Ian Lynagh:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:10:39PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty  
> wrote:
>> Ian Lynagh:
>>> Sun Jun 22 06:46:13 PDT 2008  Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>
>>> * Don't rebuild things with the stage2 compiler
>>> It leads to annoying rebuilding when working in a built tree.
>>> We'll handle this differently for 6.10.
>>
>> How do you want to handle this?
>
> By doing the different builds in different directories - probably by
> using Cabal and --distpref, at least for some things.

Ok, but we must make sure that all shipped binaries (in a bindist or  
install) are compiled with the stage1 compiler (and not with the  
bootstrap compiler).

Manuel



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