Remove a comment for GHC <= 4.08

[ghc-hetmet.git] / compiler / Makefile

diff --git a/compiler/Makefile b/compiler/Makefile
index 8e3c88b..197c954 100644 (file)
--- a/compiler/Makefile
+++ b/compiler/Makefile
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@ count :
 #  - for stage N, object files and .hi files are placed inside 
 #    the directory stageN, in subdirectories as per the sources.
 #
-#  - .hi-boot files are *linked* into the stageN tree, because in GHC 5.05+
-#    the .hi-boot file must reside in the same place as the .hi file.
-#
 #  - we use explicit -o and -ohi options to direct the output from C & 
 #    Haskell compilations.
 #
@@ -80,8 +77,8 @@ count :
 #  There are other plausible designs that might work, but each has different
 #  problems:
 #
-#  - using -odir and -hidir: GHC <= 4.08 doesn't support -hidir, and
-#    anyway -odir puts all the objects in one directory (strips off the
+#  - using -odir and -hidir:
+#    -odir puts all the objects in one directory (strips off the
 #    subdirectory part), which eventually forces us to use VPATH to find
 #    the sources.  I have a really bad feeling about VPATH.
 #
@@ -122,18 +119,6 @@ boot :: stage_dirs
 # PS: 'ln -s foo baz' takes 'foo' relative to the path to 'baz'
 #     whereas 'cp foo baz' treats the two paths independently.
 #     Hence the "../.." in the ln command line
-ifeq "$(UsingHsBoot)" "NO"
-ifeq "$(HOSTPLATFORM)" "i386-unknown-mingw32"
-       for i in */*hi-boot*; do \
-           cp -u -f $$i stage$(stage)/$$i; \
-       done
-else
-       for i in */*hi-boot*; do \
-           ($(RM) -f stage$(stage)/$$i \
-              && $(LN_S) ../../$$i stage$(stage)/$$i) || true ; \
-       done
-endif
-endif
 
 ifeq "$(stage)" "1"
 HC=$(GHC)
@@ -583,11 +568,6 @@ endif
 # Disaster!  Then the hc file sees the GHC 5.02 (or whatever)
 # include files.   For the moment we've reverted to using
 # an explicit path in the .hs sources
-#
-# For the benefit of <5.00 compilers, do include GHC_INCLUDE_DIR
-# when generating dependencies. (=> it gets passed onto mkdependHS,
-# which needs it).
-SRC_MKDEPENDHS_OPTS += -I$(GHC_INCLUDE_DIR)
 
 # We need System.Posix (or Posix when ghc < 6.2)
 ifeq "$(TARGETPLATFORM)" "i386-unknown-mingw32"