1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.01
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 4.01. The source distribution is freely
6 available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
8 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
9 current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
10 related information is available from the Haskell home page at
17 GHC 4.01 is a small increment over 4.00. Many bugs have been fixed.
18 The following features are new:
21 * The foreign function interface is now complete.
23 In addition, bootstrapping the compiler should now work out of the box.
25 The following things have not been fixed yet:
27 * The native code generator is still flaky, and is turned off by
28 default for the time being.
29 * The profiler is still flaky.
34 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
35 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
37 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
39 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
40 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
43 + On-line GHC-related resources
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46 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
48 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
49 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
50 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
51 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
57 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
60 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
62 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
63 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
64 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
69 ======================
71 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 32+MB
72 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (version
73 2.10 at least). This release is known to work on the following platforms:
75 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}
76 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
78 Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy, but
79 haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
82 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
84 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
86 The installer's guide included in distribution gives a complete
87 run-down of what-ports-work; an on-line version can be found at
89 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/4.01/installation_guide/installing_toc.html