A from-working-sources no-guarantees snapshot of the Glasgow Haskell compiler (GHC) for the i386-unknown-linux platform is now available >from ftp://ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/ghc-0.28-<platform>.tar.gz. (The files ghc-0.26-docs-and-examples.tar.gz and ghc-0.26-ps-docs.tar.gz [PostScript] may also be of interest.) This is still the "old" GHC for Haskell 1.2. The 0.28 pseudo-release is solely to provide a GHC system for Linux ELF machines. We _believe_ that profiling and Concurrent Haskell work, as well as ordinary sequential execution. As 0.28 is a snapshot and not a "proper" release, it may have serious, show-stopping bugs in it. Our commonly-reported-bugs Web page, http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ghc-bugs.html, might be one place to look... GCC 2.7.x is required; GCC 2.6.x will *not* work. A file ghc-0.28-src.tar.gz includes what should be buildable source; haven't actually tried it... A particular thanks to Peter Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who ELFified our Linux machine for us. Please report any bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will Partain AQUA project (slave) Dated: 96/05/21 === INSTALLATION NOTES ============================================== Ignore the installation instructions in any documentation. This is the stuff that applies for this distribution. Unpack the distribution. Move "ghc-0.28-<platform>" to wherever you like. Make a link to ghc-0.28-<platform>/ghc/driver/ghc, so that "ghc" will be in your PATH. Change the hardwired paths in ghc/driver/ghc and in ghc/utils/hscpp/hscpp to point to where things are on your system. (Also: ghc/utils/mkdependHS/mkdependHS, if you want to use it.) Notably: where "perl" is (first line of each script), where $TopPwd is (ghc script), where your gcc cpp ($OrigCpp) is (hscpp and mkdependHS scripts). *Don't* set any environment variables to do this. GHC should then work. Try "ghc -v" on something simple, to make sure it compiles and links a program correctly. If you don't want the profiling libraries (e.g., to save disk space), do: cd ghc rm runtime/*_p.a lib/*_p.a (or gzip them, temporarily) If you don't want to concurrent-Haskell libraries (e.g., same reason), do: cd ghc rm runtime/*_mc.a lib/*_mc.a (or gzip them, temporarily)
