1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.06
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 2.06. Source distribution is freely available
6 via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
8 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
9 current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
10 related information is available from the Haskell home page at
17 Release 2.06 represent work done through August '97.
23 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
24 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
26 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
28 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
29 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
32 + On-line GHC-related resources
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35 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
37 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
38 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
39 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
40 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
46 The easy way is to go to the WWW GHC distribution page, which should
49 ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/README.html
51 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
52 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
53 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
58 ======================
60 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
61 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (either
62 version 0.29 or 2.02 onwards). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
65 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
66 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
68 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
69 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
71 Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's
72 guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
73 an on-line version can be found at
75 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ghc-doc/install-guide.html