id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
1322,gcc --make recompiles hs-boot files unncessarily,simonpj,igloo,"`ghc --make` should not recompile unnecessarily.  Yet every build of the base package (for exanple) says:
{{{
Preprocessing library base-2.1...
Building base-2.1...
[  2 of 166] Compiling GHC.Err[boot]    ( GHC/Err.lhs-boot, nothing )
[  4 of 166] Compiling GHC.Unicode[boot] ( GHC/Unicode.hs-boot, nothing )
[ 15 of 166] Compiling Data.Typeable[boot] ( Data/Typeable.hs-boot, nothing )
[ 23 of 166] Compiling Data.Dynamic[boot] ( Data/Dynamic.hs-boot, nothing )
[ 35 of 166] Compiling Foreign.Storable[boot] ( Foreign/Storable.hs-boot, nothing )
[ 40 of 166] Compiling GHC.TopHandler[boot] ( GHC/TopHandler.lhs-boot, nothing )
}}}
There is something wrong with the compilation manager.  It's more of an infelicity than a bug, but it's still unsatisfactory.",bug,closed,normal,6.8.1,Compiler,6.6.1,fixed,,,Unknown/Multiple,Unknown/Multiple,,Unknown,recomp002,,,