Adding xhtml as a boot library

[David Waern]

2010/6/3 Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>:
> On 29/03/2010 11:27, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>
>> On 28/03/2010 23:43, David Waern wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Lentczner is working on rewriting Haddock's HTML back-end to
>>> output semantic XHTML markup. This new back-end uses the xhtml
>>> library. Is it possible to add it as a boot library?
>>
>> It's already a platform package, so I don't see any problems with adding
>> it as a boot package.
>
> I just did this, and pulled in all the Haddock patches from upstream. We
> also have a couple of small local patches in
> http://darcs.haskell.org/haddock2 that you should pull:
>
> Wed Jun  2 02:03:04 PDT 2010  Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
>  * Fix compilation with GHC 6.13
> Wed Jun  2 01:45:08 PDT 2010  Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
>  * Allow base-4.3
>
> (I think that's all, but code.haskell.org is unresponsive right now so I
> can't check)
>
> Cheers,
>        Simon
>

Thanks!

Note that you need to pass --no-tmp-comp-dir to Haddock now to get the
old behaviour of writing or picking up .hi and .o files from the
present directory (or whatever directory you have told Haddock to use
via --optghc).

I'll pull those local patches when code.haskell.org comes back.

David