[commit: ghc] master: Admonish the user to read the wiki page! (25297a1)

Edward Z. Yang ezyang at MIT.EDU
Thu Apr 14 01:32:51 CEST 2011


Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/ghc

On branch  : master

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/25297a13bd6be722a74ee87237498a5626b298ef

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commit 25297a13bd6be722a74ee87237498a5626b298ef
Author: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu>
Date:   Wed Apr 13 15:58:02 2011 +0100

    Admonish the user to read the wiki page!
    
    Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu>

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 HACKING |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index be9eec2..8ceff18 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -23,7 +23,12 @@ The GHC Developer's Wiki
      http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Hacking
    
      This section on the wiki will get you up and running with a
-     serviceable build tree in no time:
+     serviceable build tree in no time.
+
+     Don't skip this!  By default, GHC builds with all optimizations
+     and profiling; most hackers will want a quicker build, so creating
+     a mk/build.mk file and knowing how to rebuild only parts of GHC is
+     very important.
   
      This is part of the "Building GHC" section of the wiki, which
      has more detailed information on GHC's build system should you





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