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| author | hallgren <hallgren@chalmers.se> | 2016-06-16 15:09:45 +0000 |
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| committer | hallgren <hallgren@chalmers.se> | 2016-06-16 15:09:45 +0000 |
| commit | c49b920ecfbdfab2c04a1b44139291b7335fcaac (patch) | |
| tree | 646f0825eb08622d68033549d1d2f40a927860f5 /doc | |
| parent | e608a63f808cd062a2485dbd3aea157f014d3582 (diff) | |
A few documentation updates
gf.cabal: include more GHC versions in the Tested-Width field.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/gf-developers.t2t | 33 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/gf-developers.t2t b/doc/gf-developers.t2t index b525e0a4b..021c13b98 100644 --- a/doc/gf-developers.t2t +++ b/doc/gf-developers.t2t @@ -465,11 +465,16 @@ support by doing ``` cabal install -fserver -fc-runtime ``` -from the top directory. This give you two new things: +from the top directory. This give you three new things: - ``PGF2``: a module to import in Haskell programs, providing a binding to the C run-time system. +- The GF shell can be started with ``gf -cshell`` or ``gf -crun`` to use + the C run-time system instead of the Haskell run-time system. + Only limited functionality is available when running the shell in these + modes (use the ``help`` command in the shell for details). + - ``gf -server`` mode is extended with new requests to call the C run-time system, e.g. ``c-parse``, ``c-linearize`` and ``c-translate``. @@ -482,7 +487,9 @@ directories, respecively. Compile them by following the instructions in the ``INSTALL`` files in those directories. -== Creating .deb packages for Ubuntu == +== Creating binary distribution packages == + +=== Creating .deb packages for Ubuntu === This was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 for the release of GF 3.6, and the resulting ``.deb`` packages appears to work on Ubuntu 12.04, 13.10 and 14.04. @@ -492,13 +499,13 @@ tested them on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04. Under Ubuntu, Haskell executables are statically linked against other Haskell libraries, so the .deb packages are fairly self-contained. -=== Preparations === +==== Preparations ==== ``` sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev debhelper ``` -=== Creating the package === +==== Creating the package ==== Make sure the ``debian/changelog`` starts with an entry that describes the version you are building. Then run @@ -507,7 +514,13 @@ version you are building. Then run make deb ``` -== Creating OS X Installer packages == +If get error messages about missing dependencies +(e.g. ``autoconf``, ``automake``, ``libtool-bin``, ``python-dev``, +``java-sdk``, ``txt2tags``) +use ``apt-get intall`` to install them, then try again. + + +=== Creating OS X Installer packages === Run @@ -515,7 +528,15 @@ Run make pkg ``` -== Creating .rpm packages for Fedora == +=== Creating binary tar distributions === + +Run + +``` +make bintar +``` + +=== Creating .rpm packages for Fedora === This is possible, but the procedure has not been automated. It involves using the cabal-rpm tool, |