[project @ 2003-02-17 11:26:43 by simonmar]

GHC is pre-supposed in order to build GHC.  We weren't making this
nearly as explicit as it should have been.

diff --git a/docs/building/building.sgml b/docs/building/building.sgml
index f32c420..c08ac39 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/building/building.sgml
+++ b/docs/building/building.sgml
@@ -1142,6 +1142,23 @@ $ cvs checkout nofib/spectral
     <variablelist>
 
       <varlistentry>
+       <term>GHC</term>
+       <indexterm><primary>pre-supposed: GHC</primary></indexterm>
+       <indexterm><primary>GHC, pre-supposed</primary></indexterm>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>GHC is required to build many of the tools, including
+         GHC itself.  If you need to port GHC to your platform
+         because there isn't a binary distribution of GHC available,
+         then see <xref linkend="sec-porting-ghc">.</para>
+
+         <para>Which version of GHC you need will depend on the
+         packages you intend to build.  GHC itself will normally
+         build using one of several older versions of itself - check
+         the announcement or release notes for details.</para>
+       </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
        <term>Perl</term>
        <indexterm><primary>pre-supposed: Perl</primary></indexterm>
        <indexterm><primary>Perl, pre-supposed</primary></indexterm>