1 This is the InstallShield setup for GHC; it can be used as a model for other
6 1. This IS setup is for the full version of IS, *not* the one that
7 comes with MS Visual Studio.
9 2. Merely checking out this tree will not give you a functioning IS
10 setup, unfortunately. This is because there are various empty
11 directories (which CVS doesn't like). I've not done the usual trick
12 of putting spurious files in them in case InstallShield takes
15 3. The InstallShield script generates some files entirely by
18 a. the specs file for gcc
19 b. the "front-end" to autoconf (so that it can find its library
22 It might be useful to record for posterity why some of the less
23 obvious binaries are in ghc/extra-bin:
25 uname: for config.guess (used in gmp's configure script)
27 basename: to find the basename of binaries such as gzip in the main