1 This is the root directory for functional-programming tools
2 distributed by the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University.
3 Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> is the ringleader of this
6 ghc the Glasgow Haskell compilation system
7 hslibs collection of Haskell libraries
8 haggis the Haggis GUI toolkit
9 happy the Happy Haskell parser generator
10 hdirect Haskell interop tool
11 green-card a foreign function interface pre-processor for Haskell.
12 nofib the NoFib Haskell benchmarking suite
13 literate the Glasgow "literate programming" system
14 glafp-utils shared utility programs
15 mk GNU make setup used by all of fptools
16 docs documentation on the installing and using
19 Components which are always part of a distribution (never stand-alone)
20 are "glafp-utils" and "mk" (a configuration system).
22 Quick start: the following is *supposed* to work
29 where 'make' is whatever GNU make is called on your system. The
30 configuration script is a standard GNU autoconf script which accepts
31 all the normal arguments, eg. --prefix=<blah> to install the package
32 somewhere other than /usr/local. Try ./configure --help to get a full
35 There is usually an ANNOUNCE* file with any distribution. Please
36 consult that, or the <piece>/README file, to find out how to proceed.