This is the root directory for functional-programming tools
distributed by the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University.
-Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> is the ringleader
-of this effort. The tools are:
+Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> 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=<blah> 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 <piece>/README file, to find out how to proceed.
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