[[project @ 2004-05-05 14:10:07 by simonpj]
simonpj**20040505141007
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-<Sect2><Title>Installing and configuring MSYS</Title>
+<Sect2 id=msys-install><Title>Installing and configuring MSYS</Title>
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+
+<listitem> <para>
+MSYS comes with <command>bzip</command>, and MSYS's <command>tar</command>'s <literal>-j</literal> 
+will bunzip an archive (e.g. <literal>tar xvjf foo.tar.bz2</literal>).  Useful when you get a
+bzip'd dump.</para></listitem>
+
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-Win32 has a <command>find</command> command which is not the same as Cygwin's find.
-You will probably discover that the Win32 <command>find</command> appears in your <constant>PATH</constant>
-before the Cygwin one, because it's in the <emphasis>system</emphasis> <constant>PATH</constant> 
-environment variable, whereas you have probably modified the <emphasis>user</emphasis> <constant>PATH</constant> 
-variable.  You can always invoke <command>find</command> with an absolute path, or rename it.
+See the notes in <xref linkend="msys-install"> about <command>find</command> and <command>bzip</command>,
+which apply to Cygwin too.
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-Happy is a parser generator used to compile the Haskell grammar.  Add it in your
+Happy is a parser generator used to compile the Haskell grammar.  Under MSYS or Cygwin you can easily
+build it from the source distribution using
+<programlisting>
+  ./configure
+  make
+  make install
+</programlisting>
+This should install it in <filename>/usr/local/bin</filename> (which maps to <filename>c:/msys/1.0/local/bin</filename>
+on MSYS).
+Make sure the installation directory is in your
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-	    source distribution in the usual way.  Sources are
+	    source distribution in the same way as Happy.  Sources are
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