ghc-6.2 compilation problems

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Tue Dec 23 09:30:39 EST 2003


 
> > > The build output is like so:
> > [snip]
> > > Fail: does not exist
> > > Action: openFileEx
> > > Reason: No such file or directory
> > > File: base/base.haddock
> > 
> > Hmmm.  It's possible the gentoo ebuild is trying to 'make 
> install-docs'
> > without building the docs in the first place.
> 
> This has indeed been the problem and is hopefully fixed by now.
> However, the question remains what exactly the use of the variable
> NO_HADDOCK_DOCS is if it can be set to yes and haddock is still
> called at least once it in the libraries dir (I think to create
> the file index.html). Could you perhaps explain the intention behind
> the NO_HADDOCK_DOCS variable?

Oops, the libraries Makefile should really check NO_HADDOCK_DOCS.
Thanks for pointing it out.

Cheers,
	Simon


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