Andrey Mokhov

I hope I haven't missed anything. If you spot any left-over files while testing please let me know.

@ndmitchell Good idea! I'm a bit concerned that this might increase CI time; we are already close to AppVeyor time limit, where we are at the very edge even when...

So, let me reopen this issue as it requires further work.

@ndmitchell You seem to be very familiar with the solution you are proposing, perhaps, you could take this over? Here are the tasks we have: - [ ] Add a...

Thanks @ndmitchell! Take your time. I don't think this is on the critical path.

@angerman I agree, but this requires changes to GHC. In the meantime I suggest we follow what GHC does. It looks a bit inconvenient but not a big deal.

> Do you see a good reason why I don't, but people who chose `lib` might... I'm not the one who will be reviewing this patch to GHC.

> Wasn't there some discussion about adding `--hadrian` to configure? @angerman Yes, there was such suggestion, but I'm not a fan of it. I don't want to add another potential...

Aha, left-over object files could perhaps be the reason for you seeing something being built by `sdist-ghc`. Copying might have introduced tracking, which in turn started to bring the files...

I've been trying to figure out what the Make build system does here, and it appears that it actually cleans the tree first and then simply copies all files. So,...