1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.07
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 2.07. 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 2.07 is a bug-fix release. It addresses all of the
18 bootstrapping/building/installation problems in 2.06.
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
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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