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diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/installing.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/installing.sgml index 1c13c69d9d..3ba9520aa7 100644 --- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/installing.sgml +++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/installing.sgml @@ -528,7 +528,14 @@ your machine to run GHC. <Sect2><Title>System requirements</Title> <Para> -An installation of GHC requires about 50M of disk space (which can be lowered by choosing a “compact” installation). The Cygwin support tools take another 200M or so (though if you really need to this can be halved by installing only the following packages: bash, binutils, cygwin, diff, fileutils, findutils, gcc, grep, make, perl, mingw, sed, textutils, w32api; however, it's fiddly and not recommended). To run GHC +An installation of GHC requires about 50M of disk space (which can be +lowered by choosing a “compact” installation). The Cygwin +support tools take another 200M or so (though if you really need to this can +be halved by installing only the following packages: bash, binutils, cygwin, +diff, fileutils, findutils, gcc, grep, make, perl, mingw, sed, textutils, +w32api; however, it's fiddly and not recommended, and if you're trying to +build rather than just use GHC, you need many more, so you might as well +install the lot). To run GHC comfortably, your machine should have at least 64M of memory. </Para> @@ -881,22 +888,6 @@ unfortunately. Anyway, better to install 4.08 binaries and use those. </QandAEntry> -<QandAEntry> - -<Question> -<Para> -My programs compile fine but do nothing when run. -</Para> -</Question> - -<Answer> <Para>Some recent versions of the mingw package in Cygwin seem to -cause this. mingwin version 20001111-1 works fine; you should be able to -select it by clicking on the version number of the mingw package in the list -presented by the Cygwin setup program.</Para> -</Answer> - -</QAndAEntry> - </QandASet> </Sect2> @@ -908,7 +899,10 @@ presented by the Cygwin setup program.</Para> <Title>Building the documentation</Title> <Para> -We use the DocBook DTD, which is widely used. Most shrink-wrapped distributions seem to be broken in one way or another; thanks to heroic efforts by Sven Panne and Manuel Chakravarty, we now support most of them, plus properly installed versions. +We use the DocBook DTD, which is widely used. Most shrink-wrapped +distributions seem to be broken in one way or another; thanks to +heroic efforts by Sven Panne and Manuel Chakravarty, we now support +most of them, plus properly installed versions. </Para> <Para> @@ -918,20 +912,20 @@ Instructions on installing and configuring the DocBook tools follow. <Sect2> <Title>Installing the DocBook tools from RPMs</Title> -<Para> If you're using a system that can handle RedHat RPM packages, you can -probably use the <ULink +<Para> If you're using a system that can handle RedHat RPM packages, +you can probably use the <ULink URL="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/docbook-tools/">Cygnus DocBook -tools</ULink>, which is the most shrink-wrapped SGML suite that we could -find. You need all the RPMs except for psgml (i.e. +tools</ULink>, which is the most shrink-wrapped SGML suite that we +could find. You need all the RPMs except for psgml (i.e. <Filename>docbook</Filename>, <Filename>jade</Filename>, <Filename>jadetex</Filename>, <Filename>sgmlcommon</Filename> and <Filename>stylesheets</Filename>). Note that most of these RPMs are architecture neutral, so are likely to be found in a -<Filename>noarch</Filename> directory. The SuSE RPMs also work; the RedHat -ones <Emphasis>don't</Emphasis> as of version 6.2, but they are easy to fix: -just make a symlink from -<Filename>/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/lib/dblib.dsl</Filename> to -<Filename>/usr/lib/sgml/lib/dblib.dsl</Filename>. </Para> +<Filename>noarch</Filename> directory. The SuSE RPMs also work; the +RedHat ones <Emphasis>don't</Emphasis> in RedHat 6.2 (7.0 and later +should be OK), but they are easy to fix: just make a symlink from +<Filename>/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheets/nwalsh-modular/lib/dblib.dsl</Filename> +to <Filename>/usr/lib/sgml/lib/dblib.dsl</Filename>. </Para> </Sect2> |