Alex Ferguson writes:
>
> Sigbjorn Finne replies to me:
> > > Wouldn't it be a little neater for the installation script to relink or
> > > remove the "old" ghc, at least in the case that it really is just a
> > > symbolic link?
>
> > (I'm assuming you're talking about binary distributions, since the
> > "install" Makefile rules in the source distributions should already do
> > this.)
>
> Sorry, I should have been more specific. I did mean a 3.02 build from
> source... (I didn't think there was a binary distrib...)
>
> BTW, I obtained the above from doing a 'gnumake install' immediately
> after a 'gnumake all'; ought I have done a 'gnumake bin-dist' first?
>
No, I should have double checked target.mk first before claiming the
above :-) Sorry - the symlink check is only done for 'make all' when
$(SCRIPT_LINK) is set, not 'make install'. However, in the next
release....
--Sigbjorn
