Building the docs, again

[Iavor Diatchki]

Hello,

never mind, I figured it out---apparently the build targets were disabled
for the `quick` flavor, which I was using.

It is quite confusing that we can be setting the same variable to different
values in different places.   It would also be quite helpful if we modified
the Makefile to say `documentation build target is disabled` or some such,
rather then going ahead and building the whole of GHC, only at the end to
inform me that it doesn't know what is `html`.

-Iavor



On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 2:26 PM Iavor Diatchki <iavor.diatchki at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> sometime ago, I asked if it is possible to build just the GHC docs,
> without building the compiler.  I was told to just run `make html`.  This
> does not appear to work, the command seems to just start building GHC.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Here is the output I see, running the command from the root of the GHC
> tree.
>
> > make html V=0
> ===--- building phase 0
> make --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=0 phase_0_builds
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'phase_0_builds'.
> ===--- building phase 1
> make --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk phase=1 phase_1_builds
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/BufWrite.o
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/Pretty.o
> compilation IS NOT required
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/PprColour.o
> compilation IS NOT required
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/Outputable.o
> compilation IS NOT required
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/Json.o
> compilation IS NOT required
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/SrcLoc.o
> compilation IS NOT required
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/BasicTypes.o
> compilation IS NOT required
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/Unique.o
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/Packages.o-boot
> compilation IS NOT required
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/FiniteMap.o
> compilation IS NOT required
>   HC [stage 0] compiler/stage1/build/Name.o-boot
>
> (then I interrupted it).
>
> Also, in `mk/config.mk` I see this:
> BUILD_SPHINX_HTML        = YES
>
> -Iavor
>
>
>
>
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