1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.08
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 2.08. 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 2.08 is a bug-fix release. It addresses some of the bugs
18 discovered in 2.07. A detailed list of changes can be found in the
24 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
25 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
27 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
29 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
30 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
33 + On-line GHC-related resources
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36 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
38 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
39 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
40 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
41 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
47 The easy way is to go to the WWW GHC distribution page, which should
50 ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/README.html
52 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
53 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
54 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
59 ======================
61 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
62 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (either
63 version 0.29 or 2.02 onwards). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
66 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
67 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
69 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
70 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
72 Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's
73 guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
74 an on-line version can be found at
76 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ghc-doc/install-guide.html