From b488b59b527511e379174949efc409e8235c8dc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: simonmar Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:56:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 2005-07-21 09:56:26 by simonmar] Update notes on Perl --- docs/building/building.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/building/building.xml b/docs/building/building.xml index 9c27290..f445b37 100644 --- a/docs/building/building.xml +++ b/docs/building/building.xml @@ -1220,8 +1220,9 @@ $ cvs checkout nofib/spectral Perl version 5 at least is required. GHC has been known to tickle bugs in Perl, so if you find that Perl crashes when running GHC try updating (or downgrading) your Perl - installation. Versions of Perl that we use and are known to - be fairly stable are 5.005 and 5.6.1. + installation. Versions of Perl before 5.6 have been known to have + various bugs tickled by GHC, so the configure script + will look for version 5.6 or later. For Win32 platforms, you should use the binary supplied in the InstallShield (copy it to -- 1.7.10.4