[Haskell-cafe] Building Haddock on Windows

[Simon Marlow]

Yes, I suspect you have a mismatch between the version of Haddock on
your system and the version of Haddock used to produce the interfaces.
Try upgrading GHC.

Cheers,
	Simon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bayley, Alistair [mailto:Alistair_Bayley at ldn.invesco.com] 
> Sent: 05 April 2004 16:19
> To: Simon Marlow
> Cc: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> Subject: RE: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haddock on Windows
> 
> Trying to invoke Haddock with
> --read-interface=c:\ghc\ghc-6.0\doc\html\base\base.haddock
> 
> Initially I get a stack overflow, so I added: +RTS -K2M -RTS ...
> 
> and now I get:
> Fail: end of file
> Action: Data.Binary.getWord8
> 
> Is the --read-interface option specified correctly? This is 
> where my GHC
> installation is, and the base.haddock file exists in there. I 
> assume this is
> the interface file.
> 
> Is this a compatibility problem? i.e. haddock file 
> distributed with GHC 6.0
> too old for Haddock 0.6?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Marlow [mailto:simonmar at microsoft.com]
> > Sent: 17 March 2004 15:29
> > To: Bayley, Alistair
> > Cc: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
> > Subject: RE: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haddock on Windows
> > 
> > 
> > >  - why doesn't it know what Int, String, Float, IO, Monad, 
> > > Show, etc are?
> > > What invocation option do I need to ensure it links to
> > > Prelude/hierarchical-library stuff? (I think it's 
> > > --read-interface; must I
> > > generate interface files for the Prelude and libraries though?)
> > 
> > You get the interfaces for the libraries with a GHC 
> > installation.  Just
> > use the --read-interface flag to tell Haddock about them.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 	Simon
> 
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