Re: build system issue: some changes in libraries doesn't trigger required rebuilds

Ömer Sinan Ağacan writes:

Hi all,

I'm having this annoying issue all the time: Whenever a `git pull origin master` updates a library(one of the submodules, like `Binary`) a `make` doesn't trigger required rebuilds(e.g. it doesn't rebuild libraries and tries to rebuild GHC code).

I don't know how to force build libraries, so most of the time I end up doing `make distclean` and wasting 30 minutes.

You could try removing the dist-install/ directory of the relevant library. It generally triggers a rebuild (albeit not necessarily minimal). That being said, I generally just distclean when there's any question. Cheers, - Ben