Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of Development/DevBuilds

Timestamp:

02/24/10 03:18:37 (3 years ago)

Author:

benl (IP: 129.94.242.38)

Comment:

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Development/DevBuilds

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-== Build Flavour ==
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-Set {{{BUILDFLAVOUR}}} in {{{make/config.mk}}} file to {{{devel}}} for faster builds. This turns off some GHC optimisations, and reduces the amount of rebuilding that must be done after changing one of the compiler source files.
 
 == Build Targets ==
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 }}}     
 
-== Parallel Builds ==
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+== Custom Configuration ==
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+The build can be tweaked by creating the file `make/config-override.deps`. Note that you don't want to change `make/config.mk` directly because this file is under version control.
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+==== Build Flavour ====
+
+The  {{{make/config.mk}}} file lists a number of additional build flavours. For the fastest build add the following line to `make/config-override.deps`.
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+{{{
+BUILDFLAVOUR = devel
+}}}
+
+This turns off some GHC optimisations, and reduces the amount of rebuilding that must be done after changing one of the compiler source files.
+
+==== Parallel Builds ====
 
 The makefile is set up to use the value of the `THREADS` variable wherever possible. 
 
-The default is currently 2, but if you have more then override this by creating a file `make/config-override.deps` containing
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+The default is currently 2, but if you have more then override it with something like:
 {{{
 THREADS = 8     # or whatever