X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=distrib%2FINSTALL;h=f6cfa5cf167a3e6661a709b99d7d8beddc241415;hp=c37e8824821b827b6eddd94e36525b0f84841cbc;hb=cab3c5cb1a0038412472172cb0b25bc81dfdde8f;hpb=0268d6925e117661769fbe1ed823cbef7e4da8e3 diff --git a/distrib/INSTALL b/distrib/INSTALL index c37e882..f6cfa5c 100644 --- a/distrib/INSTALL +++ b/distrib/INSTALL @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ -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: @@ -11,70 +10,38 @@ 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 , 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= -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-/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.