This is the InstallShield setup for GHC; it can be used as a model for other
IS setups.
Notes:
1. This IS setup is for the full version of IS, *not* the one that
comes with MS Visual Studio.
2. Merely checking out this tree will not give you a functioning IS
setup, unfortunately. This is because there are various empty
directories (which CVS doesn't like). I've not done the usual trick
of putting spurious files in them in case InstallShield takes
exception to that.
3. The InstallShield script generates some files entirely by
itself. These are:
a. the specs file for gcc
b. the "front-end" to autoconf (so that it can find its library
files).
It might be useful to record for posterity why some of the less
obvious binaries are in ghc/extra-bin:
uname: for config.guess (used in gmp's configure script)
basename: to find the basename of binaries such as gzip in the main
configure script
uniq: somewhere...
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Most of the other users of the fptools build system have migrated to Cabal, and with the move to darcs we can now flatten the source tree without losing history, so here goes. The main change is that the ghc/ subdir is gone, and most of what it contained is now at the top level. The build system now makes no pretense at being multi-project, it is just the GHC build system. No doubt this will break many things, and there will be a period of instability while we fix the dependencies. A straightforward build should work, but I haven't yet fixed binary/source distributions. Changes to the Building Guide will follow, too.
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