ghc --make and linking

[Brian Smith]

This annoyed me too, especially when using ghc --make to build a
program that uses wxHaskell (long link time) on a slow machine (1Ghz
PIII).

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:48:56 -0800, Frederik Eaton
<frederik at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Is there a reason why "ghc --make" always does a link step regardless
> of the timestamps of the dependencies?
> 
> If it could elide the link step when the output is up to date, it
> would be much closer to 'make'.