[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.3

Herbert Valerio Riedel hvriedel at gmail.com
Sun Jul 13 07:39:17 UTC 2014


On 2014-07-13 at 05:52:09 +0200, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

[...]

> haddock 2.14.3 that ships with it seems to be quite broken. Perhaps it's a
> bad interaction with cabal, it's hard to say from the outside, but here are
> some details.
>
> Here's the kind of error I get from haddock when I try to use cabal to
> install a package (primitive, in this case):
>
>     module ‘primitive-0.5.3.0:Main’ is defined in multiple files:

[...]

> The result is that I have no haddock docs for any packages now :-(

I can't reproduce that here with a ghc-7.8.3/haddock-2.14.3 install on
Linux. However, this sounds *alot* like a Clang/CPP issue, specifically

 https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1740#issuecomment-39559026



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