4 This is the top-level directory of the fptools build system. Several
5 packages are part of this build system; if you got this as part of a
6 source distribution (eg. for GHC), then you will have one or more of
7 the following directories:
9 ghc The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
10 hslibs A Collection of Haskell libraries
11 haddock A Haskell documentation tool
12 haggis The Haggis GUI toolkit
13 happy The Happy Haskell parser generator
14 hdirect Haskell interop tool
15 greencard A foreign function interface pre-processor for Haskell.
16 libraries Haskell libraries (reqd. by ghc)
17 nofib The NoFib Haskell benchmarking suite
19 Additional documentation for each project can be found in its
22 In addition, the following directories contain project-independent bits:
24 mk GNU make setup used by all of fptools
25 glafp-utils Shared utility programs
26 docs Documentation on the installing and using
27 the fptools build system.
28 distrib Tools and additional bits for building distributions
30 Quick start: the following is *supposed* to work
36 where 'make' is whatever GNU make is called on your system (GNU make
37 is *required*). If there are any other tools required for the build,
38 then the configure script will detect them and tell you if any are
39 missing. For example, a working GHC installation is required for
40 building most of the tools (including GHC itself).
42 The configuration script is a standard GNU autoconf script which
43 accepts all the normal arguments, eg. --prefix=<blah> to install the
44 package somewhere other than /usr/local. Try ./configure --help to
45 get a full list of the options.
47 There is usually an ANNOUNCE* file with any distribution. Please
48 consult that, or the <piece>/README file, to find out how to proceed.
50 Full documentation for the fptools build system can be found in the
53 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/building-guide.html
55 More information about GHC can be found here:
57 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
60 The GHC Team, glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org