$ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git/
- Then run the darcs-all script in that repository
+ Then run the sync-all script in that repository
to get the other repositories:
$ cd ghc
is itself written in Haskell. For instructions on how to port GHC to a
new platform, see the Building Guide.
-If you're building from darcs sources (as opposed to a source
+If you're building from git sources (as opposed to a source
distribution) then you also need to install Happy [4] and Alex [5].
For building library documentation, you'll need Haddock [6]. To build
$ make install
The "perl boot" step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
-from darcs. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
+from git. 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.
+It can take a long time. To customise the build, see the file HACKING.