CVS access to nhc98This 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. Viewing the CVS repository on the webIf you don't want to download the sources, you can view the current contents of the anonymous CVS repository on the web here. Remote Read-only CVS AccessRead-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 treeThe 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 repositoryThe 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 CVSCore developers of nhc98 have write-access to the CVS repository. They need to use a slightly different procedure for accessing the source tree:
All the other instructions are the same, except that developers also have permission to commit changes to the repository. Gaining write-accessTo obtain write-access to cvs.haskell.org, you need to ask the Haskell CVS maintainer - Jeff Lewis <jlewis@galconn.com> - for an account. The details are on the GHC CVS cheat-sheet (Section 2.1.2).
The latest updates to these pages are available on the WWW from http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/
This page last modified: 11 March 2003 |