Technically, you can skip recompiling the stage1 compiler. But I never bother: all of the libraries must be rebuilt; you have, after all, changed the interface file format.
Edward Excerpts from Jan Stolarek's message of 2015-04-15 13:20:10 +0100: > GHC Devs, > > Once I compile GHC I use the "cd ghc; make 2" trick to re-compile any > changes. That however does > not work if my code changes modify the format of interface files - the > resulting compiler is > unusable. In fact the only way to get a working compiler after interface > format change that I am > aware of is to rebuild everything from scratch. Needless to say, this takes a > lot of time. Is > there a better way? I'd like to test D841 but if this means rebuilding > everything then I'll have > to pass. > > Janek > > --- > Politechnika Łódzka > Lodz University of Technology > > Treść tej wiadomości zawiera informacje przeznaczone tylko dla adresata. > Jeżeli nie jesteście Państwo jej adresatem, bądź otrzymaliście ją przez > pomyłkę > prosimy o powiadomienie o tym nadawcy oraz trwałe jej usunięcie. > > This email contains information intended solely for the use of the individual > to whom it is addressed. > If you are not the intended recipient or if you have received this message in > error, > please notify the sender and delete it from your system. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
