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author | simonpj <unknown> | 1997-03-19 20:45:02 +0000 |
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committer | simonpj <unknown> | 1997-03-19 20:45:02 +0000 |
commit | d5c8ed9758e4bb20406b9b9b2cc0533b38340a6e (patch) | |
tree | c39804e0a9ef77dad59e72acdf899d86aa8aa61a /docs/installing.lit | |
parent | 0fde03830c8a4b427c4a5e991c8b521d0b7ae104 (diff) | |
download | haskell-d5c8ed9758e4bb20406b9b9b2cc0533b38340a6e.tar.gz |
[project @ 1997-03-19 20:44:50 by simonpj]
Still moving towards 2.02
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diff --git a/docs/installing.lit b/docs/installing.lit index d2d9bb32fa..fc1afe4e45 100644 --- a/docs/installing.lit +++ b/docs/installing.lit @@ -584,9 +584,10 @@ tell you if you are missing something. for doing shell-scripty tasks that involve lots of text processing. It is pretty easy to install. -(Perl~5 is the current version; GHC might be Perl~4 friendly, we've -run into some trouble with our scripts on \tr{alpha-dec-osf\{1,2\}} -using Perl~4 (patchlevel 36)) +Perl~5 is the current version; GHC should be Perl~4 friendly though. +For Win32 platforms, Perl~5 is recommended, we even strongly suggest +you pick up our quick-and-dirty port of Perl~5, as the common +Hip/ActiveWare port of Perl is not Cool Enough for our purposes. Perl should be put somewhere so that it can be invoked by the \tr{#!} script-invoking mechanism. (I believe \tr{/usr/bin/perl} is preferred; |