[GHC] #7810: make show VALUE=VAR depends on ghc-stage1

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#7810: make show VALUE=VAR depends on ghc-stage1
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  Reporter:  kgardas           |          Owner:                  
      Type:  bug               |         Status:  closed          
  Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:                  
 Component:  Build System      |        Version:  7.7             
Resolution:  wontfix           |       Keywords:                  
        Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
   Failure:  None/Unknown      |     Difficulty:  Unknown         
  Testcase:                    |      Blockedby:                  
  Blocking:                    |        Related:                  
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Changes (by igloo):

  * status:  new => closed
  * difficulty:  => Unknown
  * resolution:  => wontfix


Comment:

 The problem is that some makefiles are generated during the build: We make
 makefiles for the dependencies between modules, and we use ghc-cabal to
 make the `package-data.mk` makefiles. This is necessarily interleaved with
 compilation, as e.g. we need to build ghc-cabal before we can use it to
 generate makefiles, and we need to make the stage1 compiler before we can
 use it to calculate dependencies, so I don't think that it makes sense to
 move all this stuff into configure.

 However, it should be rare that you want to alter `mk/config.mk`; normally
 you should define values in `mk/build.mk` (or `mk/validate.mk if
 validating) instead.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7810#comment:2>
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