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| author | Alp Mestanogullari <alpmestan@gmail.com> | 2019-04-12 19:47:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2019-04-18 08:18:18 -0400 |
| commit | 4c8a67a4b025774993b80442fb3654c8868c1d24 (patch) | |
| tree | 42c776d4db782b9e13f68d751e9000c15af9b159 /hadrian/doc | |
| parent | e28706ea0d7b8115716926d0016cd070ab5ab326 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-4c8a67a4b025774993b80442fb3654c8868c1d24.tar.gz | |
Hadrian: fix ghcDebugged and document it
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diff --git a/hadrian/doc/user-settings.md b/hadrian/doc/user-settings.md index b6b44521cc..6b1849f479 100644 --- a/hadrian/doc/user-settings.md +++ b/hadrian/doc/user-settings.md @@ -114,6 +114,21 @@ devel2WerrorFlavour :: Flavour devel2WerrorFlavour = werror (developmentFlavour Stage2) ``` +### Linking GHC against the debugged RTS + +What was previously achieved by having `GhcDebugged=YES` in `mk/build.mk` can +be done by defining a custom flavour in the user settings file, one that +sets the `ghcDebugged` field of `Flavour` to `True`, e.g: + +``` haskell +quickDebug :: Flavour +quickDebug = quickFlavour { name = "dbg", ghcDebugged = True } +``` + +Running `build --flavour=dbg` will build a `quick`-flavoured GHC and link +GHC, iserv, iserv-proxy and remote-iserv against the debugged RTS, by passing +`-debug` to the commands that link those executables. + ## Packages Users can add and remove packages from particular build stages. As an example, |