[project @ 2001-04-27 10:03:50 by simonmar]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / distrib / INSTALL

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+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The short story (if you are installing GHC from a binary dist):
+
+- Decide where you want to install it.
+- Do    ./configure --prefix=where-i-want-to-install-it
+- Do    make install
+
+That installs everything - the compiler, interactive system,
+libraries, and documentation.  At the end of 'make install' you will
+be informed of what you need to add to your PATH, and also the
+location of the documentation.
+
+Linux users: GHCi-5.00 needs libreadline.so.3.  Newer Linuxes (SuSE
+7.1, possibly RH 7.X, possibly Mandrake 8.X) only come with
+libreadline.so.4.  If you need libreadline.so.3 and only have the .4
+version, you might be able to get things working by making a symbolic
+link from libreadline.so.4 to libreadline.so.3.  We tried this on a
+SuSE 7.1 box and it seemed to work.
+
+If something doesn't work as it should, please contact us at
+glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org.
+
+JRS, 10 April 2001.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The Long Story
+

 This is the INSTALL instructions for a binary distribution of one of
 the fptools projects. For more details on what on earth this package
 is up to, please consult the README and ANNOUNCE.
 This is the INSTALL instructions for a binary distribution of one of
 the fptools projects. For more details on what on earth this package
 is up to, please consult the README and ANNOUNCE.

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 Bug reports/suggestions for improvement to the installation procedure/setup
 (as well as other GHC related troubles you're experiencing, of course),
 
 Bug reports/suggestions for improvement to the installation procedure/setup
 (as well as other GHC related troubles you're experiencing, of course),

-gratefully received at glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk
+gratefully received at glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org

 
 Enjoy.
 
 
 Enjoy.
 

-
--------Win32 users only----------------------------------------
-NOTE to Win32 users: to enjoy any sort of happiness with the GHC
-tools, you will have to install the cygwin toolchain, which dresses
-up the Win32 environment into something more UNIX-like (which
-this initial port of ghc relies on being the case). The cygwin tools
-are available from
-
-    http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
-
-GHC was built with beta20.1 of the cygwin tools and depends on it
-to work.
-
-Install cygwin before continuing. Couple of things to remember
-doing while installing these two:
-
-  - Create a toplevel /bin directory, and copy bash.exe into it
-    as sh.exe (we'll need this for running the configure script.)
-    Add /bin to your PATH.
-  - Create a toplevel /tmp directory.
-
-Additionally, ghc requires perl to operate, so included in the
-binary distribution is a perl binary, (perl.exe in the toplevel
-directory.) Install (as in copy :-) this somewhere along your
-PATH too (/bin is a good choice.)
-
-This is hardly beatiful, but it avoids having to download and install
-yet another package, including piles of (useful) perl libraries that the
-ghc perl code does not require to operate. Besides which, there's a
-dearth of readily useable perl distributions 'out there' that contain
-cygwin-compiled binaries, something we really do depend on.
-
--------Win32 users only----------------------------------------
+--------------------------------------------------------------------