recommended build system

[Simon Marlow]

This doesn't affect the source snapshots, only the Linux/x86 binaries.
I think there are more people using the sources and the Linux/x86_64
binaries.

Cheers,
	Simon

On 09 December 2005 10:26, Frederik Eaton wrote:

> 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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