Build system idea

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:11:38AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
> I propose we do this:
> 
>  - Extract the code from Cabal that generates Makefiles, and treat it as
>    part of the GHC build system.  Rather than generating a Makefile
>    complete with build rules, we generate a Makefile that just
>    has the package-specific metadata (list of modules, etc.), and put
>    the code to actually build the package in the GHC build system.

Do you see this as the long-term, final solution? Or would the plan be
to let Cabal do the building again once it has learnt how to do its own
dependency analysis and call "ghc -c" on individual modules?


Thanks
Ian