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+#################################################################################
+#
+#			    ghc/lib/std/Makefile
+#
+#		Makefile for building the GHC Prelude libraries umpteen ways
+#
+#	
+#################################################################################
+
+TOP = ../..
+include $(TOP)/mk/boilerplate.mk
+
+WAYS=$(GhcLibWays)
+
+ifeq "$(way)" ""
+SUBDIRS = cbits
+else
+SUBDIRS=
+endif
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# 	Setting the standard variables
+#
+
+LIBRARY = libHS$(_way).a
+HS_SRCS	= $(wildcard *.lhs)
+HS_OBJS = $(HS_SRCS:.lhs=.$(way_)o)
+LIBOBJS = $(HS_OBJS)
+HS_IFACES= $(HS_SRCS:.lhs=.$(way_)hi) PrelGHC.$(way_)hi
+
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# 	Setting the GHC compile options
+
+SRC_HC_OPTS += -recomp -cpp -fglasgow-exts -fvia-C -Rghc-timing $(GhcLibHcOpts)
+
+#
+# Profiling options
+WAY_p_HC_OPTS += -GPrelude
+WAY_mr_HC_OPTS += -GPrelude
+
+#
+# Object and interface files have suffixes tagged with their ways
+#
+ifneq "$(way)" ""
+SRC_HC_OPTS += -hisuf $(way_)hi
+endif
+
+# per-module flags
+PrelArr_HC_OPTS     += -monly-2-regs
+Directory_HC_OPTS   += -monly-3-regs 
+Time_HC_OPTS        += -monly-3-regs -H16m
+
+# Far too much heap is needed to compile PrelNum with -O at the
+# moment, but there you go..
+PrelNum_HC_OPTS     += -H30m
+# Note: this option has to go in the Makefile rather than in an
+# OPTIONS line in the source file. The reason being that we want
+# to override the SRC_HC_OPTS of -O, and anything option coming
+# from the Makefile overrides what's in OPTIONS lines. (mumble_HC_OPTS
+# does override SRC_HC_OPTS settings)
+PrelUnsafe_HC_OPTS           += -Onot
+
+PrelBase_HC_OPTS         += -H12m
+PrelRead_HC_OPTS         += -H12m
+PrelTup_HC_OPTS          += -H12m
+PrelArr_HC_OPTS          += -H8m
+PrelHandle_HC_OPTS       += -H12m
+Time_HC_OPTS             += -H8m
+Complex_HC_OPTS          += -H10m
+IO_HC_OPTS	         += -H12m
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# 	Dependency generation
+
+SRC_MKDEPENDHS_OPTS += -I$(GHC_INCLUDE_DIR)
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# 	Rules
+
+PrelGHC.$(way_)hi	: PrelGHC.hi-boot
+	cp $< $@
+
+boot :: PrelGHC.hi $(foreach way, $(WAYS), PrelGHC.$(way)_hi)
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# 	Installation; need to install .hi files as well as libraries
+#
+# The interface files are put inside the $(libdir), since they
+# might (potentially) be platform specific..
+#
+# override is used here because for binary distributions, datadir is
+# set on the command line. sigh.
+#
+override datadir:=$(libdir)/imports/std
+
+#
+# Files to install from here
+# 
+INSTALL_LIBS  += $(LIBRARY)
+INSTALL_DATAS += $(HS_IFACES)
+
+include $(TOP)/mk/target.mk
+
+glaExts/PackedString_HC_OPTS += -monly-3-regs
+concurrent/Parallel_HC_OPTS  += -fglasgow-exts
+glaExts/Int_HC_OPTS          += -H8m
+glaExts/Word_HC_OPTS         += -H8m