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| author | Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> | 2017-09-30 11:53:16 -0400 |
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| committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2017-10-02 17:16:51 -0400 |
| commit | c0e6c73482881ac966a5fc12ef671d405af9262a (patch) | |
| tree | 70bb5dfad1ec5899aad164cbff08b67cab856d76 /INSTALL.md | |
| parent | 0e9681268a38cbc15c9c2b50979624732c9077ce (diff) | |
| download | haskell-c0e6c73482881ac966a5fc12ef671d405af9262a.tar.gz | |
Rewrite boot in Python
One step closer to being able to drop the Windows Perl tarball. We
previously attempted to do this in D3567 but were forced to revert due
to Windows problems.
Acknowledgements:
* @Phyx kindly contributed the codepath allowing this to work on
Windows.
Test Plan: Validate
Reviewers: hvr, austin, Phyx
Subscribers: erikd, thomie, rwbarton
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3918
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.md')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 3ae9186874..42bbc1e63d 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ XeLaTex (only for PDF output). Quick start: the following gives you a default build: - $ perl boot + $ python3 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 `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. +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. These steps give you the default build, which includes everything optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built). |