Haddock version during build

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Simon Peyton-Jones:
> Further to Simon's remarks below:
>
> a) Haddock takes a flag telling it where to find its libraries. This  
> is a pain for users, especially since Haddock is now very fussy  
> about which libraries it'll understand.
>
> So we should somehow arrange that you can tell Haddock where to find  
> its libraries at install time, so that users don't need to know.

I don't think that will work.  How will a Linux package manager (rpm,  
yum, apt, etc) or Mac installer get that path?

Manuel

> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: cvs-libraries-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:cvs-libraries-bounces at haskell.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Simon
> | Marlow
> | Sent: 04 June 2008 14:20
> | To: David Waern; Duncan Coutts; cvs-libraries at haskell.org; Manuel  
> M T Chakravarty
> | Subject: Re: Haddock version during build
> |
> | So Simon PJ and I just discussed this, and we have a rough plan.
> |
> | The basic problem is that in order to build documentation for the  
> libraries
> | in a GHC build tree using Haddock 2, we have to build Haddock 2  
> using the
> | stage2 GHC.  There's no alternative, because when running Haddock  
> against
> | one of the packages in the build tree, it needs to read the  
> interface files
> | for the other packages.
> |
> | So the rough plan is this: if we need to build documentation  
> during a
> | build, then we check out a copy of Haddock into the build tree  
> (it's still
> | a separate repository, like the libraries), and we build Haddock  
> after
> | stage 2, before generating the documentation.  We don't have to  
> ship this
> | Haddock with GHC, it's just a temporary build tool.
> |
> | Sound reasonable?
> |
> | Cheers,
> |         Simon
> |
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