Win32 build of ghc from cvs failed; also 6.4 source distribution

[Simon Marlow]

On 19 April 2005 13:23, Claus Reinke wrote:

> - it would be helful if the mk/build.mk.sample corresponded
>     to the default settings (with useful options in comments).
>     when having to add BIN_DIST=1, I naively copied and
>     modified that file, and was surprised by the amount of
>     work that was done after.

Sounds reasonable.

> - there was an absolutely amazing amount of warnings
>     generated in the process.. how do you ever find the
>     important ones in there? I'm often not good at going
>     for warning-free code myself, but I do recall that as
>     a pragmatically important invariant:-)

You're probably getting a lot of warnings due to using the default
"devel" profile in build.mk.

Cheers,
	Simon