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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2017-05-26 18:27:37 -0400
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2017-05-26 18:27:37 -0400
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Revert "Rewrite boot in Python"
This reverts commit 0440af6abe592c2366d302d603664fe763ad0828. Unfortunately this breaks on Windows for tiresome reasons. I'll need to reevaluate this.
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ XeLaTex (only for PDF output).
Quick start: the following gives you a default build:
- $ python3 boot
+ $ perl boot
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ Quick start: the following gives you a default build:
You can use Make's `-jN` option to parallelize the build. It's generally best
to set `N` somewhere around the core count of the build machine.
-The `python3 boot` step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out from
-git. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site, this step has
-already been performed.
+The `perl boot` step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
+from git. For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
+this step has already been performed.
These steps give you the default build, which includes everything
optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built).