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[Conal Elliott]

Do forward slashes get turned into backslashes for xxxx-args arguments in
Windows?  Could someone point me to the code that does it?  I could add a
setup flag that disables the translation, or maybe detect the "http://" and
just preserve what looks to be URLs.

BTW, cabal-make now has a target that auto-subscribes to all wiki talk pages
generated for a project.

  - Conal

On 1/22/07, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:
>
> I've been working on some haddock-related Cabal tweaks and a "make"
> include file called "cabal-make", which manages syntax coloring (vis
> hscolour) with links from the haddock docs, web-based links to other
> libraries, and wiki-based user comments.  It's ready to release for others'
> use except for one problem (as mentioned below).  The --haddock-args flag
> ends up turning my forward slashes into backslashes (on my WinXP machine),
> so all of the web links are broken.  I'd appreciate suggestions about this
> problem.
>
> You can find an example doc generated by cabal-make (a previous
> implementation that didn't quite fit cabal) at http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/TV/doc/html/Interface-TV-Output.html
> .  Suggestions welcome.
>
> - Conal
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net >
> Date: Jan 19, 2007 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Conal Elliott] Re: getting cabal to pass more info to
> haddock
> To: Isaac Jones <ijones at syntaxpolice.org>
> Cc: cabal-devel < cabal-devel at haskell.org>
>
> Hi Isaac.  Now I see why the patch file was empty.  And after some
> head-scratching about your note below, I'm glad the patch was empty.  I
> hadn't noticed the --xxx-args flags for configure, and instead added a new
> haddock flag.  Giving a flag to configure makes a lot more sense.
>
> So now I have just a new pair of flags enable-use-packages &
> disable-use-packages, which control whether haddock gets
> automatically-generated --use-package flags.
>
> My makefile are now performing this sort of incantation:
>
> ./setup configure --disable-use-packages --haddock-args="\
>   --read-interface=http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base,c:/ghc/ghc-6.6/doc/html/libraries/base/base.haddock
> \
>   --read-interface=http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/mtl,c:/ghc/ghc-6.6/doc/html/libraries/mtl/mtl.haddock\
>   "
>
> The only problem is --haddock-args ends up turning my forward slashes into
> backslashes, so all of the web links are broken.
>
> Any advice?
>
>    - Conal
>
> On 1/17/07, Isaac Jones <ijones at syntaxpolice.org > wrote:
> >
> > Hi Conel.  Thanks for this!  It sounds like the ideas from your
> > makefile could be used for Hackage for generating nice Haddock :)
> >
> > There is a general meachanism for adding --foo-args for each Program
> > that cabal knows about; can you use this meachanism to add --foo-arg
> > as well, instead of special-casing for haddock?
> >
> > If you do that, can you make the help output not suck?  Currently it
> > does something like this:
> >
> >            --ar-args=ARGS                  give the args to ar
> >            --haddock-args=ARGS             give the args to haddock
> >            --ld-args=ARGS                  give the args to ld
> >            --pfesetup-args=ARGS            give the args to pfesetup
> >            --ranlib-args=ARGS              give the args to ranlib
> >            --runghc-args=ARGS              give the args to runghc
> >            --runhugs-args=ARGS             give the args to runhugs
> >            --tar-args=ARGS                 give the args to tar
> >
> > it would be nice to concerve lines with sometthing like this:
> >
> > --ar-arg=ARG       --ar-args=ARGS          give the arg or args to ar
> > --haddock-arg=ARG  --haddock-args=ARGS     give the arg or args to
> > haddock
> > etc
> >
> > The patch you sent seemed like an empty file to me.  Maybe I'm just
> > being nihilistic ;)
> >
> > peace,
> >
> >   isaac
> >
>
>
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