haddock-2.3.0 literate comments discarded from .lhs input

[Andrea Vezzosi]

Yeah, sorry, i was commenting on the general kind of variables, not on
this one in particular, which i don't really know from which code it
comes from.
I can see it in "ghc-pkg describe $pkg" where $pkg is a core package
but not in packages installed with cabal-install, so there's probably
something wrong with the ghc build system or installer on windows.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Alistair Bayley <alistair at abayley.org> wrote:
>>> i.e. the $httptopdir isn't being expanded, or whatever is meant to happen to it.
>>
>> Those variables are supposed to be expanded by Cabal, and here on linux i get:
>> --read-interface=/usr/local/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base,/usr/local/share/doc/ghc/libraries/base/base.haddock
>
> Really? I searched the cabal source for httptopdir and found nothing,
> so I was wondering where it was meant to happen (of course it could be
> that my search was incorrectly specified). Do you know which module is
> meant to expand this?
> Distribution.Simple.InstallDirs.defaultInstallDirs looked a likely
> candidate, but no sign of $httptopdir there.
>
> Alistair
>