ghc-<version>-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
You only need the first one, which contains GHC itself and
- the "core" libraries.
+ the "core" libraries.
The extralibs package contains a bunch of optional libraries. If
you want, you can unpack this over the top of your source tree, and
$ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/
- Then run the darcs-all shell script in that repository
+ Then run the darcs-all script in that repository
to get the other repositories:
$ cd ghc
- $ sh darcs-all get
+ $ chmod +x darcs-all
+ $ ./darcs-all get
This grabs the "core" packages by default. To get the full set of
packages, instead say
- $ sh darcs-all --extra get
+ $ ./darcs-all --extra get
This also downloads the libraries that are normally bundled in the
"extralibs" package (see above).
You also need a few other tools installed: Happy [4], Alex [5], and
Haddock [6] (for building library documentation), and a good DocBook
-XML toolchain if you want to build the compiler documentation.
+XML toolchain if you want to build the compiler documentation.
Quick start: the following gives you a default build:
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Please see
-
+
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/contributors.html