[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Haddock version 2.8.0

[David Waern]

2010/9/2 Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgtuyl at chello.nl>:
> On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:56 +0200, David Waern <david.waern at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> -- Haddock 2.8.0
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>> A new version of Haddock, the Haskell documentation tool, is out!
>>
>
> It doesn't install on Windows + MinGW:
>
>> cabal install --global haddock
>
> Resolving dependencies...
> Downloading haddock-2.8.0...
> :
> :
> [ 9 of 33] Compiling Haddock.Utils    ( src\Haddock\Utils.hs,
> dist\build\Haddock\Utils.o )
>
> src\Haddock\Utils.hs:435:8: parse error on input `import'
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> haddock-2.8.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
>
> This concerns a line with a foreign import:
>
> #ifdef mingw32_HOST_OS
> foreign import ccall unsafe "_getpid" getProcessID :: IO Int -- relies on
> Int == Int32 on Windows
> #else
> getProcessID :: IO Int
> getProcessID = fmap fromIntegral System.Posix.Internals.c_getpid
> #endif
>
>
> Adding the line:
>  {-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface #-}
> to the top of file  src\Haddock\Utils.hs helped.

Thanks for catching this!

I'll wait a little while in case other issues are reported before I
upload 2.8.1.

David