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mkesper on May 17, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Syste...

Table 1 in the paper looks promising, though. Let's hope their estimation is correct:

We implemented 5 a new build sys- tem for GHC from scratch using Shake and our build abstractions from §5. The new build system does not yet implement the full functionality of the old build system, but we are currently address- ing remaining limitations; nothing presents any new challenges or requires changes to the build infrastructure.

mitchty on May 17, 2018 [–]

Well its in place now for ghc 8.6 ref https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/Apr18

https://github.com/ghc/hadrian

Its mostly complete, and as someone that has used ghc's make system and likes make, this build system is miles better and isn't a chthulian horror.

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