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@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ Next, clone the repository and all the associated libraries:
$ git clone --recursive git://git.haskell.org/ghc.git
```
-On Windows, you need an extra repository containing some build tools:
+On Windows, you need an extra repository containing some build tools.
+These can be downloaded for you by configure. This only needs to be done once by running:
```
-$ cd ghc/
-$ git clone git://git.haskell.org/ghc-tarballs.git
+$ ./configure --enable-tarballs-autodownload
```
First copy `mk/build.mk.sample` to `mk/build.mk` and ensure it has