Filter out GHC.Prim also for the Haddock step

[David Waern]

Simon,

What do you think we should do here?

David

2007/11/23, David Waern <david.waern at gmail.com>:
> 2007/11/17, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > If I understand correctly, your patch
> >
> >     Fri Nov  9 00:08:06 GMT 2007  David Waern <david.waern at gmail.com>
> >       * Filter out GHC.Prim also for the Haddock step
> >       Please merge to the GHC 6.8.2 branch
> >
> > will remove GHC.Prim from the haddock docs, presumably because haddock 2
> > can't cope with it? However, the users guide points to it to document
> > the "Special built-in functions":
> >     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/special-ids.html
> > and I think it's considered a module that users can import, so it ought
> > to be documented. Is it possible to make haddock 2 understand GHC.Prim
> > instead?
>
> OK, so it's wrong to filter it out in the Haddock 0.x case.
>
> In the Haddock 2 case I'm not sure what to do since it seems to be
> impossible to typecheck this module with GHC. If Haddock 2 can't
> typecheck a module it can't generate documentation for it.
>
> David
>