remove ticket todos

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc.mk

diff --git a/ghc.mk b/ghc.mk
index 329e76f..053432e 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc.mk
+++ b/ghc.mk
@@ -33,16 +33,9 @@
 #
 # Tickets we can now close, or fix and close:
 #
-#   * 912  build system doesn't have enough dependencies (it does now!)
-#   * 2744 check for presence of hsc2hs in ./configure
 #   * 2966 make sure --with-gcc does the right thing (#2966)
-#   * 3115 make ghc.cabal read-only
-#   * 2107 install the docs by default
 #   * 1693 make distclean
 #   * 2689 make maintainer-clean
-#   * 2619  bootstrapping using a newer GHC shouldn't fail
-#     for bogus reasons (picking the wrong version of the ghc package)
-#   * 2770 check which version of gcc we require
 #   * 3173 make install with DESTDIR
 
 # Possible cleanups:
@@ -68,27 +61,31 @@
 #   make show VALUE=VAR       prints the value of VAR
 #   $(warning stuff)          prints stuff when reading the makefile
 
-# BUILD ORDER
+# Approximate build order.
+#
+# The actual build order is defined by dependencies, and the phase
+# ordering used to ensure correct ordering of makefile-generation; see
+#    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Architecture/Idiom/PhaseOrdering
 #
 #     * With bootstrapping compiler:
-#           o Build libraries/{hpc,extensible-exceptions,Cabal}
-#           o Build utils/ghc-pkg
 #           o Build utils/ghc-cabal
-#     * With bootstrapping compiler and ghc-cabal:
+#           o Build utils/ghc-pkg
 #           o Build utils/hsc2hs
-#           o Build libraries/hpc
-#           o Build compiler (stage 1)
 #     * For each package:
-#          o generate package-data.mk and inplace-pkg-info
+#          o configure, generate package-data.mk and inplace-pkg-info
 #           o register each package into inplace/lib/package.conf
-#           o generate .depend for each package
+#     * build libffi
+#     * With bootstrapping compiler:
+#          o Build libraries/{filepath,hpc,extensible-exceptions,Cabal}
+#           o Build compiler (stage 1)
 #     * With stage 1:
 #           o Build libraries/*
+#          o Build rts
 #           o Build utils/* (except haddock)
 #           o Build compiler (stage 2)
 #     * With stage 2:
 #           o Build utils/haddock
-#           o Build compiler (stage 3)
+#           o Build compiler (stage 3) (optional)
 #     * With haddock:
 #           o libraries/*
 #           o compiler