X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4041e0d46969c284ab2b9fc6e75c5bd92048cdf4;hb=aa104ab9b2d8e4d86e9f0c2d415db8bfd860781c;hp=f509e56816fd2e8318211f9a57baded90f780340;hpb=5eb1c77c795f92ed0f4c8023847e9d4be1a4fd0d;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/README b/README index f509e56..4041e0d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,21 +1,36 @@ 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 - mkworld configuration system (derived from X11 imake) glafp-utils shared utility programs + mk GNU make setup used by all of fptools + 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 "mkworld" (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.