[Haskell-cafe] access programs own documentation

[Corentin Dupont]

In fact, the documentation location I am interrested in is a library
(Nomyx-Language). Sorry, I should have mentionned that!
I want to access the documentation of Nomyx-Language from Nomyx.


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:46 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:

> Except Nomyx is a pure executable[1] and thus won't have a ghc package db
> entry.
>
> [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Nomyx-0.4.1/Nomyx.cabal
>
> * adam vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com> [2014-01-12 14:45:48-0500]
> > Hi Corentin,
> >
> > One way is to call `ghc-pkg describe Nomyx-0.4.1` and look for the
> > line starting with haddock-html. Or maybe look at how ghc-pkg does it
> > <https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/utils/ghc-pkg/Main.hs>.
> >
> > This can fail sometimes (though perhaps not for documentation), since
> > you can have multiple packages with the same name and version
> > installed, and I don't know how you can get the ABI hash of a
> > dependency into a program.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Corentin Dupont
> > <corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > I'd like to access, from within my program, the program own haddock
> > > documentation.
> > > From the cabal autogen path file, I can access the location of the
> program's
> > > data file, binaries etc. (getBinDir, getLibDir, getDataDir) but not the
> > > location of the doc. How to do that?
> > > For example on my machine:
> > >
> > > datadir    = "/home/kau/.cabal/share/i386-linux-ghc-7.6.3/Nomyx-0.4.1"
> > >
> > > The documentation is generated in
> > > "/home/kau/.cabal/share/doc/i386-linux-ghc-7.6.3/Nomyx-0.4.1", but it
> > > depends on the configuration.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Corentin
> > >
> > >
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