X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4041e0d46969c284ab2b9fc6e75c5bd92048cdf4;hb=8e9dd840d6fd203d95333c58f913f06347f9863b;hp=433e5582268b541bcb36e34d028ada98d5eb093a;hpb=203387fbbb0774ce6f928866873be4466b5968a1;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/README b/README index 433e558..4041e0d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ This is the root directory for functional-programming tools distributed by the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University. -Simon Peyton Jones is the ringleader of this +Simon Peyton Jones is the ringleader of this effort. The tools are: ghc the Glasgow Haskell compilation system hslibs collection of Haskell libraries haggis the Haggis GUI toolkit happy the Happy Haskell parser generator + hdirect Haskell interop tool green-card a foreign function interface pre-processor for Haskell. nofib the NoFib Haskell benchmarking suite literate the Glasgow "literate programming" system @@ -15,10 +16,21 @@ effort. The tools are: docs documentation on the installing and using the fptools suite. -The "literate" stuff is usually distributed *with* other systems, but -not necessarily. Components which are always part of a distribution -(never stand-alone) are "glafp-utils" and "mk" (a configuration -system). +Components which are always part of a distribution (never stand-alone) +are "glafp-utils" and "mk" (a configuration system). + +Quick start: the following is *supposed* to work + + $ ./configure + $ make boot + $ make + $ make install + +where 'make' is whatever GNU make is called on your system. The +configuration script is a standard GNU autoconf script which accepts +all the normal arguments, eg. --prefix= to install the package +somewhere other than /usr/local. Try ./configure --help to get a full +list of the options. There is usually an ANNOUNCE* file with any distribution. Please consult that, or the /README file, to find out how to proceed.