Fix retainer profiling

[ghc-hetmet.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 1cd147e..25122a8 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ There are two ways to get a source tree:
       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
@@ -45,16 +45,17 @@ There are two ways to get a source tree:
 
     $ 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).
@@ -71,16 +72,16 @@ below).
 
 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:
 
-       $ autoreconf
+       $ sh boot
        $ ./configure
        $ make
        $ make install
 
-The autoreconf step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
+The "sh boot" step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
 from darcs.  For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
 this step has already been performed.
 
@@ -89,26 +90,23 @@ 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.
 
-For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [3],
-which is also available in source form (DocBook XML) in docs/building.
+For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [3].
 
 
 References
 ==========
 
- [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/               GHC Home Page
- [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc       GHC Developer's Wiki
- [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
-                                               Building Guide
-
- [4] http://www.haskell.org/happy/             Happy
- [5] http://www.haskell.org/alex/              Alex
- [6] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/           Haddock
+ [1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/                        GHC Home Page
+ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc                GHC Developer's Wiki
+ [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building  Building Guide
+ [4] http://www.haskell.org/happy/                      Happy
+ [5] http://www.haskell.org/alex/                       Alex
+ [6] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/                    Haddock
 
 
 Contributors
 ============
 
 Please see
-  
+
    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/contributors.html