Hello all, Whenever I compile Xmonad using cabal, it seems to compile twice. I'm new to haskell so perhaps I just don't understand what I'm looking at:
$ runhaskell Setup configure --prefix=$HOME/usr --user Configuring xmonad-0.6... $ runhaskell Setup build Preprocessing library xmonad-0.6... Preprocessing executables for xmonad-0.6... Building xmonad-0.6... [1 of 8] Compiling XMonad.StackSet ( XMonad/StackSet.hs, dist/build/XMonad/StackSet.o ) [2 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Core ( XMonad/Core.hs, dist/build/XMonad/Core.o ) [3 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Layout ( XMonad/Layout.hs, dist/build/XMonad/Layout.o ) [4 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Operations ( XMonad/Operations.hs, dist/build/XMonad/Operations.o ) [5 of 8] Compiling XMonad.ManageHook ( XMonad/ManageHook.hs, dist/build/XMonad/ManageHook.o ) [6 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Config ( XMonad/Config.hs, dist/build/XMonad/Config.o ) [7 of 8] Compiling XMonad.Main ( XMonad/Main.hs, dist/build/XMonad/Main.o ) [8 of 8] Compiling XMonad ( XMonad.hs, dist/build/XMonad.o ) /usr/bin/ar: creating dist/build/libHSxmonad-0.6.a [ 1 of 10] Compiling Paths_xmonad ( dist/build/autogen/Paths_xmonad.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/Paths_xmonad.o ) [ 2 of 10] Compiling XMonad.StackSet ( XMonad/StackSet.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad/StackSet.o ) [ 3 of 10] Compiling XMonad.Core ( XMonad/Core.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad/Core.o ) [ 4 of 10] Compiling XMonad.Layout ( XMonad/Layout.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad/Layout.o ) [ 5 of 10] Compiling XMonad.Operations ( XMonad/Operations.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad/Operations.o ) [ 6 of 10] Compiling XMonad.ManageHook ( XMonad/ManageHook.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad/ManageHook.o ) [ 7 of 10] Compiling XMonad.Config ( XMonad/Config.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad/Config.o ) [ 8 of 10] Compiling XMonad.Main ( XMonad/Main.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad/Main.o ) [ 9 of 10] Compiling XMonad ( XMonad.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad.o ) [10 of 10] Compiling Main ( ./Main.hs, dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/Main.o ) Linking dist/build/xmonad/xmonad ... $
Shouldn't the /usr/bin/ar step use dist/build/XMonad/StackSet.o rather than compile again to dist/build/xmonad/xmonad-tmp/XMonad/StackSet.o ? Am I doing something wrong, or is this normal? If it is the norm, I'd appreciate a link to where I can learn about why it's not doing what I'd expect. I'm hoping I might save my poor, slow laptop from a lot of hard thinking every time I re-compile. Thanks -- Mike