On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:30:11AM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
What's unfortunate here is probably that the files are lying around in the same directory as the sources. E.g. the build system of Modula-3 uses a directory structure like this:
Project LINUXLIBC6 - object files and other generated files for Linux SOLgnu - object files and other generated files for Solaris src - sources, Makefiles and other data
This way not only generated files are out of scope in every day programming but it is also absolutely no pain to develop for several platforms simultaneously. The disadvantage is clearly that a programmer has to conform to this structure, but this could also be considered as advantage. But one could consider it as an disadvantage that is more complicated to work with many but small programs.
This is exactly what autoconf/automake gives you, it works for haskell (almost) just as well as it does for C code. In any case, this seems like the domain of a separate tool like hmake, ghc is just one of several haskell compilers, there is nothing about the language itself that requires the specific file droppings ghc leaves. (not that I mind them) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈