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The GF shell welcome message will now include something like This is GF version 3.2.1-darcs. Built on darwin/i386 with ghc-7.0, flags: interrupt where a list of enabled configuration flags are included on the last line. This is implemented in GF.Infra.BuildInfo by consulting the CPP macros defined by the respective option in gf.cabal. For this to work, GF.Infra.BuildInfo obviously has to be updated when new flags are added to gf.cabal or if the CPP macros are renamed. (Also, I suspect that if you reconfigure with different flags and rebuild GF without cleaning first, the BuildInfo module will not be recompiled, resulting in a misleading welcome message...)
DESCRIPTION
The Grammatical Framework (=GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory.
It consists of
* a special-purpose programming language
* a compiler of the language
* a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the
generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
* generation
* parsing
* translation
* type checking
* computation
* paraphrasing
* random generation
* syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
* multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
* semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic
properties of expressions)
* grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
* embeddability in programs written in other languages (C,C++,
Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
COMPILATION and INSTALLATION of source distribution:
See doc/gf-developers.html for installation instructions.