CVS access to nhc98
This page tells you how to get CVS access to the latest, most current,
nhc98 sources.
Note that we only store non-regenerable files in CVS, so if you don't
already have a working Haskell compiler, you won't be able to build
from C sources using CVS.
Remote Read-only CVS Access
Read-only access is available to anyone - there's no need to ask us
first. To get read-only access to our repository:
With read-only CVS access you can do anything except commit changes
to the repository. You can make changes to your local tree, and still
use CVS's update facility to keep your tree otherwise up-to-date,
and you can generate patches using cvs diff in order to send
to us for inclusion.
To set up default flags for some of the CVS commands, you can create
a .cvsrc file. For instance, the -P flag to 'update' says
prune empty directories, which is normally what you want, and the -d
flag ensures that you collect new directories that have been added.
Here is an example .cvsrc file:
checkout -P
release -d
update -d -P
diff -c
Using the checked-out CVS tree
The first thing to do after checking out a fresh tree is
./configure, setting whatever options you wish to use.
It is always safe to re-run the ./configure script at any
time - it will never leave your configuration in an inconsistent state.
The machine/OS combination is always detected first so you can't re-use
the wrong machine configuration by mistake, and although previous
options for a particular machine are cached, they are always reported,
and can be always overridden on the command line.
Then, do a make with whatever targets you are interested
in: make help will give you a list of the common ones.
For instance, make basic gives you the standard compiler, and
make all gives you profiling and tracing variants in addition.
Tracking changes in the CVS repository
The log messages of all CVS commit actions are sent to the mailing list
cvs-nhc98@haskell.org. If you wish to see who is making
changes, why, and and what they say about them, please do join this
list - see
http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo for further details.
Core developers - write-access to CVS
Core developers of nhc98 have write-access to the CVS
repository. As a reminder, they should use a slightly different
address for an initial checkout of the tree:
$ cvs -d :ext:username@hinken.sparud.net:/usr/src/master checkout nhc
All the other instruction are the same, except that developers also
have permission to commit changes to the repository.
The latest updates to these pages are available on the WWW from
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/nhc98/
This page last modified: 2001.05.01
York Functional Programming Group
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