Re: GitLab forks and submodules

2019-02-16 Thread Ömer Sinan Ağacan
Sorry for reviving this thread, but this is causing so much trouble for me. I want a fresh clone of a GHC fork. If I clone the fork it doesn't work for reasons mentioned in this thread, however I just realized that it doesn't work even if I fork gitlab/ghc/ghc and then add the fork as a new remote.

Distributed local dev builds

2019-02-16 Thread Julian Leviston
Hi all, I have several fairly high-spec machines on my network where I usually build GHC, and I was wondering if it was easy/trivial/possible to set up a distributed build where it farmed out some of the compute work to the other machines? I seem to need to build from scratch somewhat often whe

Put 'haddock' in the 'ghc' repo

2019-02-16 Thread Vladislav Zavialov
Hello devs, There appears to be no good workflow for contributing patches that change both GHC and Haddock. For contributors who have push access to both repositories, it is at least tolerable: 1. create a Haddock branch with the required changes 2. create a GHC branch with the required changes