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Fix markdown link syntax authored Mar 29, 2019 by Tobias Dammers's avatar Tobias Dammers
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This page describes our current plan for making GHC's build system more
malleable. The new build system will be developed in a branch here:
[ http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-new-build-system/](http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-new-build-system/)
[http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-new-build-system/](http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-new-build-system/)
but if you want to grab it then you would probably prefer to start from a
snapshot tarball:
[ http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-new-build-system-2008-11-20-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2](http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-new-build-system-2008-11-20-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2)
[http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-new-build-system-2008-11-20-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2](http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc-new-build-system-2008-11-20-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2)
## Design goals
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- compiler
Instead, following [ Recursive make considered harmful](http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/?ref=DDiyet.Com), we propose to move all the logic and dependencies into the root
Instead, following [Recursive make considered harmful](http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/?ref=DDiyet.Com), we propose to move all the logic and dependencies into the root
Makefile (or files that get included into it) so that make sees all of
it together. Advantages:
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