Ben Gamari authored 7 years ago and Ben Gamari committed 7 years ago

One step closer to being able to drop the Windows Perl tarball. We
previously attempted to do this in D3567 but were forced to revert due
to Windows problems.

Acknowledgements:
 * @Phyx kindly contributed the codepath allowing this to work on
Windows.

Test Plan: Validate

Reviewers: hvr, austin, Phyx

Subscribers: erikd, thomie, rwbarton

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3918

This reverts commit 0440af6a.
Unfortunately this breaks on Windows for tiresome reasons. I'll need to
reevaluate this.

Ben Gamari authored 7 years ago and Ben Gamari committed 7 years ago

Test Plan: Validate

Reviewers: hvr, austin

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, erikd

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3567

Takenobu Tani authored 8 years ago and Ben Gamari committed 8 years ago

MAKEHELP.md has an old link to 'Building/Hacking'.  I updated it to
suitable links for new contributors.

Reviewers: austin, bgamari

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3039

Reviewed by: bgamari

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1209

A normal `make show` starts a build of the ghc-stage1 compiler, to
create package-data.mk files. This version doesn't read those, so it
will work right after ./configure.

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1064

There's no reason to have two files, and this is one step towards a
cleaner root directory.

Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>