[project @ 2001-01-16 17:47:10 by simonmar]

Change the way the top-level Makefile works, now that we have a
dependency between ghc and hslibs which means that you can't `make
boot' in hslibs until you've done `make all' in ghc.

  - now you just type `make all' at the top-level, and the makefile
    arranges to do `make boot all' in each of the subdirectories.
    Typing `make boot' at the top-level now yields a message explaining
    what's going on.

  - Now it's no longer necessary to set $(ProjectsToBuild).  If you don't
    set it, the build system attempts to build all the projects in
    the source tree, in the order determined by $(AllProjects) in
    config.mk.  I've been meaning to fix this for ages, since it meant
    that one had to hand-edit config.mk.in when making a distribution
    for anything other than GHC - this is no longer the case.

    You still *can* set ProjectsToBuild if you want to, however.

  - ProjectsToInstall has been replaced by ProjectsDontInstall, and
    has the obvious, reverse, meaning.  It also has a reasonable default,
    so the need to set it should be rare.

All this has the obvious benefit that to build GHC you need one fewer
commands (no more `make boot'), and anyone that has "./configure &&
make && make install" hardwired into their brains will feel right at
home.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 5aab57271f..dcdaaffb82 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ In addition, the following directories contain project-independent bits:
 Quick start:  the following is *supposed* to work
 
 	$ ./configure
-	$ make boot
 	$ make
 	$ make install