@@ -68,15 +68,15 @@ Here follows a summary - if you get into trouble, the Building Guide has all the answers. NB. you need GHC installed in order to build GHC, because the compiler -is itself written in Haskell. It is possible to build GHC using just -a C compiler, but we don't recommend this as the normal route. If you -*really* want to do it this way, then see the Building Guide. +is itself written in Haskell. For instructions on how to port GHC to a +new platform, see the Building Guide. If you're building from darcs sources (as opposed to a source distribution) then you also need to install Happy [4] and Alex [5]. For building library documentation, you'll need Haddock [6]. To build -the compiler documentation, you need a good DocBook XML toolchain. +the compiler documentation, you need a good DocBook XML toolchain and +dblatex. Quick start: the following gives you a default build: @@ -89,16 +89,6 @@ The "sh boot" step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out from darcs. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site, this step has already been performed. -If you want the documentation too then use these commands instead: - - $ echo "XMLDocWays = html" > mk/build.mk - $ echo "HADDOCK_DOCS = YES" >> mk/build.mk - $ sh boot - $ ./configure - $ make - $ make install - $ make install-docs - These steps give you the default build, which includes everything optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built). It can take a long time. To customise the build, see the file README 313586270cc4502ba72a0bdf2938e76454ba8b60 Ian Lynagh igloo@earth.li http://github.com/ghc-hq/ghc/commit/d06e3ada353c1690f33879e92c7b9299de54e972 d06e3ada353c1690f33879e92c7b9299de54e972 2009-10-12T02:51:42-07:00 2009-10-12T02:51:42-07:00 More README updates fc9af0b83f288f77706d52854d51b0d6cf4824c3 Ian Lynagh igloo@earth.li