recompilation on --main-is

[Simon Marlow]

Will be fixed in 7.4.2:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5878

Cheers,
	Simon

On 16/02/2012 05:10, Evan Laforge wrote:
> Thanks for bringing this up. I've been having the same problem and was
> thinking there was something wrong with my system. I have 3 main files
> and one util that they all import. Every build recompiles every file,
> even if there were no changes.
>
> On Feb 15, 2012 8:39 PM, "Conrad Parker" <conrad at metadecks.org
> <mailto:conrad at metadecks.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     We have a project with around 200 Haskell source files, and around 20
>     executables which import these (as well as importing third-party
>     libraries). We first build all the non-main files using a makefile
>     generated with ghc -M. We then build the executables using a separate
>     invocation of "ghc --make --main-is foo.hs", for each foo.hs. This
>     worked fine with ghc-7.2.1; each final "ghc --make" would simply link
>     the pre-built object files -- but with ghc-7.4.1 all these files are
>     recompiled for each target executable. As a result our full build
>     takes around 10-20x longer with ghc-7.4.1 than ghc-7.2.1.
>
>     Looking at compiler/iface/FlagChecker.hs, it seems that the --main-is
>     flag is used as an input to the recompilation checker. It would make
>     sense that --main-is should force recompilation of the particular file
>     that exports 'main', but it also forces recompilation of its
>     dependencies. Is this a bug or is there a good reason to recompile
>     everything?
>
>     Conrad.
>
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