GHC 7.8.1: Many haddock-related complaints from 'ghc-pkg check'

[Austin Seipp]

Hi Conal,

Damn, I think I somehow totally missed this. :( I'll look into on my
Mavericks machine and see what's going wrong - I figured ./validate
would have caught this, but perhaps something strange is going on.

I filed a bug for you marked for 7.8.2:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8981

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:
> My concern about the volume of warnings here is that it distracts from the
> info I'm after, namely broken packages. One coping strategy seems to be
> using the --simple-output flag to 'ghc-pkg check'. In that case, the haddock
> warnings are suppressed, and I see just a list of broken package names. A
> little terser than I'm after, but it helps.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:
>>
>> From a bit of experimentation, it appears that the problematic packages do
>> indeed have Haddock failures. For instance,
>>
>>     bash-3.2$ cd random-1.0.1.1/
>>     bash-3.2$ cabal configure
>>     Resolving dependencies...
>>     Configuring random-1.0.1.1...
>>     bash-3.2$ cabal haddock
>>     Running Haddock for random-1.0.1.1...
>>     Preprocessing library random-1.0.1.1...
>>     Haddock coverage:
>>
>>     System/Random.hs:2:2: parse error on input ‘#’
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I installed the binary distribution of GHC 7.8.1 for Mac OS this morning,
>>> cabal-installed a few packages, and now I get a *lot* of warnings about
>>> missing .haddock files:
>>>
>>>     bash-3.2$ ghc-pkg check
>>>     Warning: haddock-interfaces:
>>> /Users/conal/.cabal/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.1/uniplate-1.6.12/html/uniplate.haddock
>>> doesn't exist or isn't a file
>>>     Warning: haddock-interfaces:
>>> /Users/conal/.cabal/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.1/polyparse-1.9/html/polyparse.haddock
>>> doesn't exist or isn't a file
>>>     Warning: haddock-interfaces:
>>> /Users/conal/.cabal/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.1/ghc-syb-utils-0.2.1.2/html/ghc-syb-utils.haddock
>>> doesn't exist or isn't a file
>>>     Warning: haddock-interfaces:
>>> /Users/conal/.cabal/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.1/constraints-0.3.5/html/constraints.haddock
>>> doesn't exist or isn't a file
>>>     Warning: haddock-html:
>>> /Users/conal/.cabal/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.1/constraints-0.3.5/html
>>> doesn't exist or isn't a directory
>>>     Warning: haddock-interfaces:
>>> /Users/conal/.cabal/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.1/newtype-0.2/html/newtype.haddock
>>> doesn't exist or isn't a file
>>>     Warning: haddock-html:
>>> /Users/conal/.cabal/share/doc/x86_64-osx-ghc-7.8.1/newtype-0.2/html doesn't
>>> exist or isn't a directory
>>>     ...
>>>
>>> Expected behavior? Avoidable? Fixable?
>>>
>>> Thanks,  - Conal
>>
>>
>
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Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
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