Filter out GHC.Prim also for the Haddock step

[Simon Marlow]

Urgh, that's a problem.

There's really no way to typecheck this module as it is, because it is not 
the real base:GHC.Prim.  The real base:GHC.Prim is in GHC's belly, it has 
no source code.

So the only way to get this past the compiler is to change its name.  There 
are two options: change the package name, or change the module name. 
Probably the latter is easier, because otherwise you'd have to make a 
separate package (+Cabal bits) for this.

But then you have the problem that the docs are generated with the wrong 
module name.  So I guess the only way to fix this is to tell Haddock 
somehow that it has to change the module name back to GHC.Prim after GHC 
has typechecked it.

Cheers,
	Simon

David Waern wrote:
> Simon,
> 
> What do you think we should do here?
> 
> David
> 
> 2007/11/23, David Waern <david.waern at gmail.com>:
>> 2007/11/17, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li>:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> If I understand correctly, your patch
>>>
>>>     Fri Nov  9 00:08:06 GMT 2007  David Waern <david.waern at gmail.com>
>>>       * Filter out GHC.Prim also for the Haddock step
>>>       Please merge to the GHC 6.8.2 branch
>>>
>>> will remove GHC.Prim from the haddock docs, presumably because haddock 2
>>> can't cope with it? However, the users guide points to it to document
>>> the "Special built-in functions":
>>>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/special-ids.html
>>> and I think it's considered a module that users can import, so it ought
>>> to be documented. Is it possible to make haddock 2 understand GHC.Prim
>>> instead?
>> OK, so it's wrong to filter it out in the Haddock 0.x case.
>>
>> In the Haddock 2 case I'm not sure what to do since it seems to be
>> impossible to typecheck this module with GHC. If Haddock 2 can't
>> typecheck a module it can't generate documentation for it.
>>
>> David
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Cvs-libraries mailing list
> Cvs-libraries at haskell.org
> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-libraries
>