Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/ghc

On branch  : ghc-7.4

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/7b0998b3e2f6ba492a8f60c47392cef31ad9b902

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commit 7b0998b3e2f6ba492a8f60c47392cef31ad9b902
Author: Simon Marlow <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Feb 16 10:37:03 2012 +0000

    point to the wiki for "Setting up your system for building GHC" (#5874)
    
    MERGED from commit 95d2e12cbee185dd78a66e4cd44d6915519f1fa9

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 README |   11 ++++++-----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index c9bb7f1..11a6ed3 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -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
 
 
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