- - If you don't have a good reason not to, it is also recommended
- that you also put the perl binary inside /bin as well. Don't
- put it inside the bin/ directory inside the installed cygwin32
- tree, as this is likely to cause #! not to work on perl scripts
- (path is likely to exceed 32 chars.)
-
-NOTE: If you're planning to install ghc on a drive different from
-where you're going to compile programs, you either need to
-change the TMPDIR variable in the Makefile to "." or the
-environment variable TMPDIR to "." when running ghc. This is clearly
-not desirable, but the only solution known to work under beta18.
+
+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.