Compiling nofib-analyse

[Edward Z. Yang]

Attached is a patch which axes HTML support in nofib-analyse.
I would Phab it but I don't know how to do that for submodules.

Maybe we should drop the LaTeX support too!

Edward

Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of 2014-12-30 19:10:56 -0500:
> Pretty sure it's the aptly named 'html'.
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/html
> 
> I can't remember the last time I used the HTML reporting
> capability, so I'd be happy about removing it.
> 
> Edward
> 
> Excerpts from Simon Peyton Jones's message of 2014-12-30 07:03:17 -0500:
> > When building nofib-analyse (in nofib), I get
> > 
> > /home/simonpj/local/bin/ghc -O -cpp --make Main -o nofib-analyse
> > 
> > Main.hs:14:18:
> >     Could not find module 'Text.Html'
> >     Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> > 
> > There are rather a lot of HTML packages.  Which one is needed?   Does this meant that it's essential to install this package before running nofib, a manual step?
> > 
> > I wonder if it'd be better to remove the HTML dependency, or make it optional?
> > 
> > Simon
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