Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

Mateusz Kowalczyk fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk
Sat Apr 5 16:24:33 UTC 2014


On 05/04/14 17:16, Mark Lentczner wrote:
> Haddock now also relies on ghc-paths, a package that isn't in platform,
> nor, oddly, is in the GHC release.
> 
> So, I'm going to presume, for releases going forward, that we'll take the
> Haddock that comes with GHC as the Platform's haddock.
> 
> ​Good?
> 
> - Mark
> 
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There's an if clause in the Cabal file. If we're in the GHC tree when
building, we set a symbol and then Haddock knows where to look for the
libs. If we aren't, *then* we require ghc-paths.

AFAICT it has been this way since 2008.

-- 
Mateusz K.


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