On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM,
1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/xmonad:
Sat Apr 10 13:45:52 EDT 2010 gwern0@gmail.com * XMonad.Core: rw recompilation This diverts the intermediate *.o *.hi files to /tmp, so they don't clutter up ~/.xmonad/
Actually, I'm rethinking this one. dons suggests (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1411089/how-to-stop-ghc-from-generating-i...) that one could specify as the redirect target /dev/null, and looking at the GHC manual again (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/users_guide/separate-compilation...), I see that there's a shortcut for redirecting all the intermediates: "-outputdir dir The -outputdir option is shorthand for the combination of -odir, -hidir, and -stubdir." So if we used "-outputdir /dev/null", we don't have to worry about cluttering up /tmp (as I think someone complained about in connection to mueval), we don't have to do a call to getTempDir (saving a line & import), and the compilation line itself increase only minimally. I think /dev/null exists on any system Xmonad is likely to run on, and so we can hardcode it. Thoughts? -- gwern