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authorIan Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>2007-09-23 16:36:40 +0000
committerIan Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>2007-09-23 16:36:40 +0000
commit732f2b1f99b2d74784acb6cacb6a4a18c87d5786 (patch)
treea64a75a54429da64170cf50ef693b81b8d3ab10d /distrib
parenteb01cea35de6994db497e002a32ea263ab290a60 (diff)
downloadhaskell-732f2b1f99b2d74784acb6cacb6a4a18c87d5786.tar.gz
Remove remaining bits of bindist "make in-place"
Diffstat (limited to 'distrib')
-rw-r--r--distrib/INSTALL13
-rw-r--r--distrib/Makefile3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/INSTALL b/distrib/INSTALL
index 1e8ad14705..2e374be47e 100644
--- a/distrib/INSTALL
+++ b/distrib/INSTALL
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ This is the INSTALL instructions for a binary distribution of GHC. For
more details on what on earth this package is up to, please consult
the README and ANNOUNCE.
-This distribution can either be installed in a location of your
-choosing, or it can be used directly in-place (but it needs to be set
-up first, read on).
+This distribution can be installed in a location of your choosing.
To set the ball rolling, run the configure script (as usual, run the
script with --help to see what options it supports). eg. to set up
@@ -12,8 +10,7 @@ the package for installing in directory <my-dir>, use
./configure --prefix=<my-dir>
-The default installation directory is /usr/local. To use GHC
-in-place, the --prefix option can be omitted.
+The default installation directory is /usr/local.
The configure script will figure out what platform you're running on,
and a couple of other interesting pieces of trivia, which it will then
@@ -21,11 +18,7 @@ fill in the Makefile.in template to give you a real Makefile. If
you're of a paranoid persuasion, you might want to take a look at this
Makefile to see if the information is correct.
-To use the software in-place, now run:
-
- make in-place
-
-or if you're installing, run
+Now run:
make install
diff --git a/distrib/Makefile b/distrib/Makefile
index eff56a0077..06c1f2947f 100644
--- a/distrib/Makefile
+++ b/distrib/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
include Makefile-vars
-.PHONY: in-place mk-version-symlinks install
+.PHONY: mk-version-symlinks install
+#.PHONY: in-place
# This has bitrotted:
#in-place ::
# @if test -x "./post-inplace-script" ; then \