build system issues

[Simon Marlow]

On 29/05/2009 17:34, Claus Reinke wrote:

> Note that ghci.ico is in driver/ghci/, not in the directory from which that
> command is being run, and ghci.rc tries to refer to it locally (why not
> 'cd;windres;cd -' ?).
>
> I haven't quite been able to figure out where that command comes from,
> and driver/Makefile refers to things like $(TOP)/mk/boilerplate.mk and
> $(TOP)/mk/target.mk, which no longer exist?

driver/Makefile is out of date, but is not normally involved in the 
build unless you explicitly say 'cd driver; make'.  We have a bunch of 
such Makefiles that we need to update for the new build system, listed 
in $(TOP)/ghc.mk.

Cheers,
	Simon