release?

[Ross Paterson]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:09:12AM -0700, Jeffrey R Lewis wrote:
> Is the build process documented somewhere?  I casual glance about the 
> source tree doesn't reveal anything up-to-date that includes everything 
> you need to do (in particular, what the expected method of slurping in 
> the libraries is).

There's some stuff at the bottom of the download page, though looking
at it again, it could be improved.  Basically

	cd hugs98/src/unix
	./configure --with-fptools=<directory containing libraries and hslibs>
	cd ..
	make install

If the hugs98 directory contains fptools (or a link to it) you can omit
the argument to configure.  The conversion doesn't change anything under
the fptools directory, but it can be confused by some of the products of
a GHC build (namely outputs of happy or hsc2hs), if they're lying about.

You need the OpenGL development stuff installed for the OpenGL/GLUT
packages to build (but it doesn't harm anything else if they don't).

> This used to be nicely automated via the Makefile at the top-level - 
> has this been kept up-to-date?  The last time I tried to use it, it 
> failed, but the problem appeared to be MacOS-specific, so I don't know 
> if it would go through on a regular linux box or not.

I don't use it myself, but Sven has, and I think it's up to date.