Hi Dominic, On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:09:39PM +0100, Dominic Steinitz wrote:
When I look at the instructions
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources
That's talking about the sources of a release, from a page like http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_682.html
they say the distribution is split in two but when I look at
it seems to be split in three
ghc-HEAD-2007-12-16-..> 16-Dec-2007 14:25 102M ghc-HEAD-2007-12-16-..> 16-Dec-2007 14:20 92M ghc-HEAD-2007-12-16-..> 16-Dec-2007 14:12 57M
These are darcs source snapshots. The filenames are ghc-HEAD-2007-12-16-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2 ghc-HEAD-2007-12-16-ghc-corelibs.tar.bz2 ghc-HEAD-2007-12-16-ghc.tar.bz2 The first includes all of the second, which in turn includes all of the third.
I'm assuming I unpack these on top of each other but I'd be grateful if someone could confirm this.
No, you only want one of them - probably the first one. I don't think it includes the most recent library split, so you'll need to ./darcs-all get after untarring it. Thanks Ian