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sdist should not have to build everything
It would be nice if instead of
$ perl boot
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make sdistit would suffice to run
$ perl boot
$ ./configure
$ make sdistand if that would not build more than necessary to generate the tarballs.
It would save time on the GHC-HEAD-Debian-Package-autobuilder that I am currently working on.
I might look into this bug eventually, but if someone else feels like doing it: Even better. (Difficulty estimated conservatively; might well be less than an hour, besides maybe waiting for test runs to finish :-))
Remember to update MakingReleases and Building/StandardTargets if this is implemented.
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| Priority | low |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
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