Feature proposal: ghc --full-flag-help ?

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Wed Mar 14 15:24:55 EDT 2007


On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:18:20AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> We already have support for man pages, I think we should try to avoid 
> duplication here.  If your GHC man page is installed correctly, then 'man 
> ghc' should give you a nice consise list of options (see attached file, and 
> scripts in docs/man in a GHC tree).

I'm using gentoo and Igloo told me today on #gentoo-haskell:
< MarcWeber> Do you have man ghc on your gentoo system?
< MarcWeber> I don't.
< Igloo> It doesn't come with the source 6.6, although I think it will with 6.6.1
< Igloo> No idea if Gentoo is meant to have it or not, though

Thats why grepping the source code didn't help me find the man pages.
If I had had man ghc I wouldn't have complained at all.
I agree with Igloo that they should be delivered with ghc source, shouldn't they?
Simon, the man page which you've attached is totally sufficient.

I apologize for making so much noise.
Marc


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