the parser specifications. If you don't want to alter the
parser then this saves you having to find and install
<command>happy</command>. You will still need a working
- version of GHC (preferably version 4.08+) on your machine in
+ version of GHC (version 5.x or later) on your machine in
order to compile (most of) the sources, however.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem>
<para>Set your <literal>$CVSROOT</literal> environment variable to
<literal>:pserver:anoncvs@glass.cse.ogi.edu:/cvs</literal></para>
+ <para>If you set <literal>$CVSROOT</literal> in a shell script, be sure not to
+ have any trailing spaces on that line, otherwise CVS will respond with
+ a perplexing message like
+ <programlisting>
+ /cvs : no such repository
+ </programlisting></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Run the command</para>
<term>sparc-sun-solaris2</term>
<indexterm><primary>sparc-sun-solaris2</primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
- <para>Fully supported (at least for Solaris 2.7),
+ <para>Fully supported (at least for Solaris 2.7 and 2.6),
including native-code generator.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>sparc-unknown-openbsd</term>
+ <indexterm><primary>sparc-unknown-openbsd</primary></indexterm>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Supported, including native-code generator. The
+ same should also be true of NetBSD</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>hppa1.1-hp-hpux (HP-PA boxes running HPUX 9.x)</term>
<indexterm><primary>hppa1.1-hp-hpux</primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
<term>ia64-unknown-linux</term>
<indexterm><primary>ia64-unknown-linux</primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
- <para>GHC currently works unregisterised. A registerised
- port is in progress.</para>
+ <para>Supported, except there is no native code
+ generator.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>mips64-sgi-irix6</term>
+ <indexterm><primary>mips-sgi-irix6</primary></indexterm>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>GHC currently works unregisterised.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>powerpc-ibm-aix</term>
<indexterm><primary>powerpc-ibm-aix</primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>Autoconf</term>
- <indexterm><primary>pre-supposed: Autoconf</primary></indexterm>
- <indexterm><primary>Autoconf, pre-supposed</primary></indexterm>
+ <term>autoconf</term>
+ <indexterm><primary>pre-supposed: autoconf</primary></indexterm>
+ <indexterm><primary>autoconf, pre-supposed</primary></indexterm>
<listitem>
- <para>GNU Autoconf is needed if you intend to build from the
+ <para>GNU autoconf is needed if you intend to build from the
CVS sources, it is <emphasis>not</emphasis> needed if you
just intend to build a standard source distribution.</para>
- <para>Version 2.52 or later of autoconf is required.
- NB. vesrion 2.13 will no longer work, as of GHC version
+ <para>Version 2.52 or later of the autoconf package is required.
+ NB. version 2.13 will no longer work, as of GHC version
6.1.</para>
- <para>Autoconf builds the <command>configure</command>
- script from <filename>configure.ac</filename> and
- <filename>aclocal.m4</filename>. If you modify either of
- these files, you'll need <command>autoconf</command> to
- rebuild <filename>configure</filename>.</para>
+ <para><command>autoreconf</command> (from the autoconf package)
+ recursively builds <command>configure</command> scripts from
+ the corresponding <filename>configure.ac</filename> and
+ <filename>aclocal.m4</filename> files. If you modify one of
+ the latter files, you'll need <command>autoreconf</command> to
+ rebuild the corresponding <filename>configure</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
want a completely standard build, then the following should
work:</para>
-<screen>$ ./configure
+<screen>$ autoreconf
+$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
</screen>
<para>Change directory to
<constant>$(FPTOOLS_TOP)</constant> and
- issue the command
- <command>autoconf</command><indexterm><primary>autoconf</primary></indexterm>
- (with no arguments). This GNU program converts
- <filename><constant>$(FPTOOLS_TOP)</constant>/configure.ac</filename>
+ issue the command</para>
+<ProgramListing>
+autoreconf
+</ProgramListing>
+ <indexterm><primary>autoreconf</primary></indexterm>
+ <para>(with no arguments). This GNU program (recursively) converts
+ <filename><constant>$(FPTOOLS_TOP)</constant>/configure.ac</filename> and
+ <filename><constant>$(FPTOOLS_TOP)</constant>/aclocal.m4</filename>
to a shell script called
<filename><constant>$(FPTOOLS_TOP)</constant>/configure</filename>.
+ If <command>autoreconf</command> bleats that it can't write the file <filename>configure</filename>,
+ then delete the latter and try again. Note that you must use <command>autoreconf</command>,
+ and not the old <command>autoconf</command>! If you erroneously use the latter, you'll get
+ a message like "No rule to make target 'mk/config.h.in'".
</para>
- <para>Some projects, including GHC, have their own
- configure script. If there's an
- <constant>$(FPTOOLS_TOP)/<project>/configure.ac</constant>,
- then you need to run <command>autoconf</command> in that
- directory too.</para>
-
- <para>Both these steps are completely
- platform-independent; they just mean that the
- human-written file (<filename>configure.ac</filename>) can
- be short, although the resulting shell script,
- <command>configure</command>, and
- <filename>mk/config.h.in</filename>, are long.</para>
+ <para>Some projects, including GHC, have their own configure script.
+ <command>autoreconf</command> takes care of that, too, so all you have
+ to do is calling <command>autoreconf</command> in the top-level directory
+ <constant>$(FPTOOLS_TOP)</constant>.</para>
+
+ <para>These steps are completely platform-independent; they just mean
+ that the human-written files (<filename>configure.ac</filename> and
+ <filename>aclocal.m4</filename>) can be short, although the resulting
+ files (the <command>configure</command> shell scripts and the C header
+ template <filename>mk/config.h.in</filename>) are long.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
-
- <para><command>configure</command> caches the results of
- its run in <filename>config.cache</filename>. Quite often
- you don't want that; you're running
- <command>configure</command> a second time because
- something has changed. In that case, simply delete
- <filename>config.cache</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<para>Prepare for system configuration:</para>
<programlisting>
-$ autoconf
+$ autoreconf
</programlisting>
<para>(You can skip this step if you are starting from a
source distribution, and you already have
<filename>configure</filename> and
<filename>mk/config.h.in</filename>.)</para>
-
- <para>Some projects, including GHC itself, have their own
- configure scripts, so it is necessary to run autoconf again
- in the appropriate subdirectories. eg:</para>
-
-<programlisting>
-$ (cd ghc; autoconf)
-</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>change <literal>TARGETPLATFORM</literal>
- appropriately.</para>
+ appropriately, and set the variables involving
+ <literal>TARGET</literal> to the correct values for
+ the target platform. This step is necessary because
+ currently <literal>configure</literal> doesn't cope
+ with specifying different values for the
+ <literal>--host</literal> and
+ <literal>--target</literal> flags.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>copy <literal>LeadingUnderscore</literal>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
-
+
<listitem>
<para>Copy
<filename><replaceable>T</replaceable>/ghc/includes/config.h</filename>
<para>To support GHCi, you need to port the dynamic linker
(<filename>fptools/ghc/rts/Linker.c</filename>). The linker
currently supports the ELF and PEi386 object file formats - if
- your platform uses one of these then you probably don't have
- to do anything except fiddle with the
- <literal>#ifdef</literal>s at the top of
- <filename>Linker.c</filename> to tell it about your OS.</para>
+ your platform uses one of these then things will be
+ significantly easier. The majority of Unix platforms use the
+ ELF format these days. Even so, there are some
+ machine-specific parts of the ELF linker: for example, the
+ code for resolving particular relocation types is
+ machine-specific, so some porting of this code to your
+ architecture will probaly be necessary.</para>
<para>If your system uses a different object file format, then
you have to write a linker — good luck!</para>
<para> Install Cygwin from <ulink url="http://www.cygwin.com/">http://www.cygwin.com/</ulink>.
The installation process is straightforward; we install it in <Filename>c:/cygwin</Filename>.
-During the installation dialogue, make sure that you select:
-<command>cvs</command>, <command>openssh</command>,
-<command>autoconf</command>,
-<command>binutils</command> (includes ld and (I think) ar),
-<command>gcc</command>,
-<command>flex</command>,
-<command>make</command>.
-
+During the installation dialogue, make sure that you select all of the following:
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>
+ <command>cvs</command>,
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>
+ <command>openssh</command>,
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>
+ <command>autoconf</command>,
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>
+ <command>binutils</command> (includes ld and (I think) ar),
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>
+ <command>gcc</command>,
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>
+ <command>flex</command>,
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>
+ <command>make</command>.
+</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+If you miss out any of these, strange things will happen to you. To see thse packages,
+click on the "View" button in the "Select Packages"
+stage of Cygwin's installation dialogue, until the view says "Full". The default view, which is
+"Category" isn't very helpful, and the "View" button is rather unobtrousive.
</para>
<para> Now set the following user environment variables:
<itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem><para> Set <constant>SHELL</constant> to
-<Filename>c:/cygwin/bin/sh</Filename>. When you invoke a shell in Emacs, this
+<Filename>c:/cygwin/bin/bash</Filename>. When you invoke a shell in Emacs, this
<constant>SHELL</constant> is what you get.
</para></listitem>
<ItemizedList>
<listitem>
<para>
-Run <Command>autoconf</Command> both in <filename>fptools</filename>
-and in <filename>fptools/ghc</filename>. If you omit the latter step you'll
-get an error when you run <filename>./configure</filename>:
+If you used <Command>autoconf</Command> instead of <Command>autoreconf</Command>,
+you'll get an error when you run <filename>./configure</filename>:
<Screen>
...lots of stuff...
creating mk/config.h
</para>
</listitem>
-<listitem> <para><command>autoconf</command> seems to create the file <filename>configure</filename>
-read-only. So if you need to run autoconf again (which I sometimes do for safety's sake),
+<listitem> <para><command>autoreconf</command> seems to create the file <filename>configure</filename>
+read-only. So if you need to run autoreconf again (which I sometimes do for safety's sake),
you get
<screen>
/usr/bin/autoconf: cannot create configure: permission denied
<listitem>
<para>
- After <command>autoconf</command> run <command>./configure</command> in
+ After <command>autoreconf</command> run <command>./configure</command> in
<filename>fptools/</filename> thus:
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