ghc --make and linking

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

An entirely sensible suggestion, too late for 6.4, but a good feature
request for the next version.  

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-bugs-bounces at haskell.org
[mailto:glasgow-haskell-bugs-
| bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Brian Smith
| Sent: 09 March 2005 08:58
| To: glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: ghc --make and linking
| 
| 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'.
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