recommended build system

[Frederik Eaton]

Would I be the only user of the nightly binary snapshots?

Frederik

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:23:16AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> The nightly binary snapshots for x86/Linux are currently hard-wired to
> use gcc-3.4.3, because I occasionally change gcc versions to make sure
> things are still working.  I'll change it back to gcc.  To workaround it
> you can add '-pgmc gcc' to the command line.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Simon
> 
> On 09 December 2005 03:26, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> 
> > Does this depend on a certain version of gcc?
> > 
> > $ ghc -M --make Matrix.hs -o matrix
> > Chasing modules from: Matrix.hs
> > [1 of 2] Compiling Fu.Prepose       ( Fu/Prepose.hs, Fu/Prepose.o )
> > ghc-6.5.20051207: could not execute: gcc-3.4.3
> > 
> > I'm wondering why it is trying to execute something which isn't in my
> > path...
> > 
> > Frederik
> > 
> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:51:19AM -0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> >> Simon fixed this recently.  The GHC HEAD build will not re-link with
> >> --make if none of the object files have changed.
> >> 
> >> Simon
> >> 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org
> >>> [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
> >>> Frederik Eaton 
> >>> Sent: 04 December 2005 00:46
> >>> To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
> >>> Subject: recommended build system
> >>> 
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> 
> >>> I'm looking for a build system for my projects which will correctly
> >>> handle all of ghc's dependencies. I.e. every time I ask it to
> >>> rebuild an output file, it will only do the minimum amount of
> >>> compilation necessary. This is important to me because "ghc --make"
> >>> and cabal currently (AFAICT) will always relink an executable even
> >>> when it is not necessary to do so; thus if I have a project with a
> >>> bunch of libraries and executables, the cost of making a small
> >>> modification and recompiling is very high, and it becomes hard to
> >>> maintain focus on my projects after the initial design phase. I've
> >>> just been playing around with GNU coreutils and was impressed with
> >>> how well the build system works, and how fast the recompilation
> >>> goes. 
> >>> 
> >>> Anyway, the system that darcs uses seems to work pretty well,
> >>> should I copy that, or do people recommend other alternatives?
> >>> 
> >>> Frederik
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