Hi,
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Evan Laforge
So ghc --make provides two things: a dependency chaser and a way to keep the compiler resident as it compiles new files. Since the dependency chaser will never be as powerful as a real build system, it occurs to me that the only reasonable way forward is to split out the second part, by adding an --interactive flag to ghc. It would then read filenames on stdin, compiling each one in turn, only exiting when it sees EOF.
Then a separate program, ghc-fe, can wrap ghc and acts like a drop-in replacement for ghc.
One immediate problem I see with this is linking - 'ghc --make Main.hs' is able to figure out what packages a program depends on, while 'ghc Main.o ... -o Main' requires the user to specify them manually with -package. So you'll either need to pass this information back to the parent process, or use 'ghc --make' for linking (which adds more overhead). -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments