[arch-haskell] haddock failures stopping packages building

[Don Stewart]

magnus:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Don Stewart<dons at galois.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Anyone have thoughts on whether we treat haddock failing at build time
> > as a non-fatal error now?
> >
> > A couple of projects aren't building, e.g.
> >
> >    haskell-xosd 0.1.1-1
> >
> > due to a haddock failure. I'm wondering if we should handle that
> > gracefully.
> 
> Maybe the way to deal with is to have cabal2arch fail to create a
> PKGBUILD if the hackage page flags  build failure?

Hmm. Hackage is overly restrictive though (i.e. it doesn't have C
libraries installed). We build more things successfully than Hackage
does.

I'd prefer it not to be fatal for a package's docs to fail to build.

-- Don