On 10/10/05, Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 11:55 schrieb Niklas Broberg:
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Using a shell script is a possible work-around, but certainly not *the* solution. If there is no real reason for ghc to spit out a.out files, then surely choosing the exe name from the main input file would simplify a programmer's life. And for applications that desperately want a.out, well, there's still the -o flag, right?
Maybe the makers of GHC wanted GHC to be "GCC compatible".
With --make it could be more "make compatible", ie $ ghc --make Prog woud be similar to $ make Prog Also, ghc --make Prog is not "GCC compatible". Try running 'gcc Prog' when the source is in Prog.c Perhaps the new behaviour should be enabled when using Prog without the .hs suffix. Best regards Tomasz