Ticket #5196 (closed feature request: wontfix)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

Warn about non-existent targets immediately

Reported by: ezyang Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Build System Version: 7.1
Keywords: Cc:
Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
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Description

If I run make dist-clean, GHC will happily go and compile a stage1 compiler, even though dist-clean is not a real target and I meant to say distclean. Ideally the build system should notice this immediately.

Change History

Changed 2 years ago by igloo

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to wontfix

I don't think we can tell whether a target exists earlier than we do now.

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