-where 'make' is whatever GNU make is called on your system (GNU make
-is *required*). The configuration script is a standard GNU autoconf
-script which accepts all the normal arguments, eg. --prefix=<blah> to
-install the package somewhere other than /usr/local. Try ./configure
---help to get a full list of the options.
+The autoreconf step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
+from darcs. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
+this step has already been performed.
+
+These steps give you the default build, which includes everything
+optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built).
+It can take a long time. To customise the build, see the file
+HACKING.
+
+For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [3],
+which is also available in source form (DocBook XML) in docs/building.
+
+
+References
+==========
+
+ [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC Home Page
+ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc GHC Developer's Wiki
+ [3] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/index.html
+ Building Guide