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@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ For full information on building GHC, see the GHC Building Guide [3]. Here follows a summary - if you get into trouble, the Building Guide has all the answers. -NB. you need GHC installed in order to build GHC, because the compiler -is itself written in Haskell. For instructions on how to port GHC to a -new platform, see the Building Guide. +Before building GHC you may need to install some other tools and +libraries. See "Setting up your system for building GHC" [8]. -If you're building from git sources (as opposed to a source -distribution) then you also need to install Happy [4] and Alex [5]. +NB. in particular you need GHC installed in order to build GHC, +because the compiler is itself written in Haskell. For instructions +on how to port GHC to a new platform, see the Building Guide [3]. For building library documentation, you'll need Haddock [6]. To build the compiler documentation, you need a good DocBook XML toolchain and @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ References [5] http://www.haskell.org/alex/ Alex [6] http://www.haskell.org/haddock/ Haddock [7] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/SyncAll + [8] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation Contributors |