-This is the INSTALL instructions for a binary bundle of the
-Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System. For more details
-on what on earth this package is up to, please consult the README
-and ANNOUNCE.
+This is the INSTALL instructions for a binary distribution of one of
+the fptools projects (eg. GHC). For more details on what on earth this
+package is up to, please consult the README and ANNOUNCE.
To start using the bundle, you can either:
* get it over with, and do the full install (details of how are ahead).
-NOTE Win32 users: see comment below before continuing.
+To set the ball rolling, run the configure script (as usual, run the
+script with --help to see what options it supports). eg. to set up
+the package for installing in directory <my-dir>, use
-To set the ball rolling, run the configure script (as usual, run
-the script with --help to see what options it supports).
+ ./configure --prefix=<my-dir>
-This will figure out what platform you're running on, and a couple of other
-interesting pieces of trivia, which it will then fill in the Makefile.in
-template to give you a real Makefile.
+The default installation directory is /usr/local. For using the
+package in-place, the --prefix option can be omitted.
-[Win32 users: don't be alarmed if you should encounter the following
- message from the configure script:
-
- not updating unwritable cache ./config.cache
+This will figure out what platform you're running on, and a couple of
+other interesting pieces of trivia, which it will then fill in the
+Makefile.in template to give you a real Makefile. If you're of a
+paranoid persuasion, you might want to take a look at this Makefile to
+see if the information is correct.
-This is a known problem of generated autoconf configure scripts running
-on cygwin, but harmless (it only means you get to re-do all the configure
-tests should you decide to re-run the script.)
-]
+To use the software in-place, now run:
-Have a look at the Makefile to see if you agree with the information
-therein. If you want to use the bundle in-place, now run `make in-place'.
-If you're installing, `make install' (`make show-install-setup' prints
-the details of where the different pieces of the bundle are heading when
--- possibly helpful).
+ make in-place
-For more information, please consult the installation guide in
-{html,dvi,info}/ghc-<version>/installing{.dvi,.info,_toc.html}.
+or if you're installing, run
-Bug reports/suggestions for improvement to the installation procedure/setup
-(as well as other GHC related troubles you're experiencing, of course),
-gratefully received at glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk
-
-Enjoy.
-
-
--------Win32 users only----------------------------------------
-NOTE to Win32 users: to enjoy any sort of happiness with the GHC
-tools, you will have to install the cygwin toolchain, which dresses
-up the Win32 environment into something more UNIX-like (which
-this initial port of ghc relies on being the case). The cygwin tools
-are available from
+ make install
- http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
+(`make show-install-setup' prints the details of where the different
+pieces of the bundle are heading when -- possibly helpful).
-GHC was built with beta20.1 of the cygwin tools and depends on it
-to work.
+If you're installing GHC, then its installation instructions have more
+information, check out http://www.haskell.org/ghc/documentation.html.
-Install cygwin before continuing. Couple of things to remember
-doing while installing these two:
-
- - Create a toplevel /bin directory, and copy bash.exe into it
- as sh.exe (we'll need this for running the configure script.)
- Add /bin to your PATH.
- - Create a toplevel /tmp directory.
-
-Additionally, ghc requires perl to operate, so included in the
-binary distribution is a perl binary, (perl.exe in the toplevel
-directory.) Install (as in copy :-) this somewhere along your
-PATH too (/bin is a good choice.)
-
-This is hardly beatiful, but it avoids having to download and install
-yet another package, including piles of (useful) perl libraries that the
-ghc perl code does not require to operate. Besides which, there's a
-dearth of readily useable perl distributions 'out there' that contain
-cygwin-compiled binaries, something we really do depend on.
+Bug reports/suggestions for improvement to the installation procedure/setup
+(as well as other GHC related troubles you're experiencing, of course),
+gratefully received at glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org.
--------Win32 users only----------------------------------------
+Enjoy,
+-- The GHC Team.
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