From: simonmar <unknown>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:36:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [project @ 2002-10-18 09:36:21 by simonmar]
X-Git-Tag: Approx_11550_changesets_converted~1535
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c7566eead75708b2072fc4bc4e8eb81c5ce66d0a;p=ghc-hetmet.git

[project @ 2002-10-18 09:36:21 by simonmar]
Add a note about the profiling versions of the interface files in a package.
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diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/packages.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/packages.sgml
index 769a7cd..bf56e96 100644
--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/packages.sgml
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/packages.sgml
@@ -372,6 +372,13 @@
 	  <listitem>
 	    <para>A list of directories containing interface files
 	    (<literal>.hi</literal> files) for this package.</para>
+
+	    <para>If the package contains profiling libraries, then
+	    the interface files for those library modules should have
+	    the suffix <literal>.p_hi</literal>.  So the package can
+	    contain both normal and profiling versions of the same
+	    library without conflict (see also
+	    <literal>library_dirs</literal> below).</para>
 	  </listitem>
 	</varlistentry>