distributed compilation by GHC

[Simon Marlow]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Simon,
> 
> Thursday, April 5, 2007, 4:12:15 PM, you wrote:
> 
>>> whether it was incorporated in GHC or not. the idea is that GHC should be
>>> extended to be able to write out dependencies list built in the --make
>>> mode. Then rather simple scripts may be used to distribute the work
>>> among many cores/boxes
>>>
>> This is one reason I wrote the 'setup makefile' patch for Cabal[1] recently.
>> With that patch you can get parallel compilation on a multiprocessor using 'make
>> -j' when using Cabal.  (I know that not everyone has make, it isn't intended to
>> be a portable solution - the ultimate goal is to use Cabal in GHC's build
>> system, where you need make anyway).
> 
> thanks! afaiu, this system don't needs that GHC can print dependency
> list it's built - dependencies are found by make itself?

dependencies are generated by 'ghc -M'.

Cheers,
	Simon