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@@ -7,6 +7,20 @@ that will help get you started right away, and point you in the
direction of more comprehensive documentation for later.
+Getting the sources
+-------------------
+
+First get the GHC darcs repository:
+
+ $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/
+
+Then run the darcs-all shell script in that repository
+to get the other repositories:
+
+ $ cd ghc
+ $ sh darcs-all
+
+
Setting up your build
---------------------
diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -13,6 +13,20 @@ Information for developers of GHC can be found here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
+Getting the Source
+==================
+
+First get the GHC darcs repository:
+
+ $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/
+
+Then run the darcs-all shell script in that repository
+to get the other repositories:
+
+ $ cd ghc
+ $ sh darcs-all
+
+
Building & Installing
=====================