building docs fails for stable ghc-6.4.2 (2006/03/23 snapshot)

Simon Marlow simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 10:39:01 EST 2006


Sven Panne wrote:
> Am Freitag, 24. März 2006 15:55 schrieb Duncan Coutts:
> 
>>I built yesterday's ghc-6.4.2 snapshot (2006/03/23) and had a problem
>>building the docs. [...]
> 
> 
> Things have improved, but "make html" still fails, this time when building the 
> Haddock documentation for the base package:
> 
>    haddock: modules are recursive: Control.Exception GHC.Conc GHC.TopHandler 
> Prelude System.IO GHC.Handle GHC.IO Data.IORef
> 
> SimonM: Is "make html" part of the nightly builds? It should definitely be, as 
> in the past it turned out to be one of the stages with most bugs in it...

Yes, but failing 'make html' is currently non-fatal and not very noisy, 
which is probably the main reason it stays broken so long.  I'll look 
into improving things.

Cheers,
	Simon



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