From 0c33b2c68b6cfff88efe624ada6ad000b504ac5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sof Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 06:53:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 1997-03-24 06:53:05 by sof] 2.02 updates --- docs/installing.lit | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/installing.lit b/docs/installing.lit index fc1afe4..3407601 100644 --- a/docs/installing.lit +++ b/docs/installing.lit @@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ % % Version 2.02 % Feb 1997 - - \begin{onlystandalone} @@ -27,7 +25,7 @@ Email: glasgow-haskell-\{users,bugs\}\@dcs.gla.ac.uk} This guide is intended for people who want to install or modify programs from the Glasgow @fptools@ suite (as distinct from those -who merely want to {\em run} them. +who merely want to {\em run} them). The whole install-and-make system has been completely re-done between GHC 2.01 and 2.02, so it will be worth your while to re-read this guide @@ -586,7 +584,7 @@ It is pretty easy to install. Perl~5 is the current version; GHC should be Perl~4 friendly though. For Win32 platforms, Perl~5 is recommended, we even strongly suggest -you pick up our quick-and-dirty port of Perl~5, as the common +you pick up a port of Perl~5 for \tr{cygwin32}, as the common Hip/ActiveWare port of Perl is not Cool Enough for our purposes. Perl should be put somewhere so that it can be invoked by the \tr{#!} @@ -687,9 +685,9 @@ build-configuration. 2.0.5 is ok. Others are probably ok too Two @fptools@ projects are worth a quick note at this point, because they are useful for all the others: \begin{itemize} -\item @glafp-utils@ contains several small utilities -which aren't particularly Glasgow-ish, but which are sometimes not -available on Unix systems. +\item @glafp-utils@ contains several utilities which aren't +particularly Glasgow-ish, but Occasionally Indispensable. + \item @literate@ contains the Glasgow-built tools for generating documentation. (The unoriginal idea is to be able to generate @latex@, @info@, @@ -738,12 +736,12 @@ operating system. \end{itemize} All the other directories are individual {\em projects} of the @fptools@ system --- for example, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (@ghc@), -the Happy parser generator (@happy@), the @nofib@ benchmark stuite, +the Happy parser generator (@happy@), the @nofib@ benchmark suite, and so on. You can have zero or more of these. Needless to say, some of them are needed to build others. For example, you need @happy@ to build @ghc@. You can either grab @happy@ too, or else you can use -an version of @happy@ that's already installed on your system, or +a version of @happy@ that's already installed on your system, or grab a binary distribution of @happy@ and install it. The important thing to remember is that even if you want only -- 1.7.10.4