no-Haddock GHC build

Matthias Kilian kili at outback.escape.de
Tue Sep 22 14:04:58 EDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 07:34:53AM -0700, Donn Cave wrote:
> I'm thinking it would be expedient to omit Haddock while building a
> ghc 6.11 snapshot, per bug ticket #3531
> 
> >From my basic understanding of its purpose there, that ought to work out
> fine - I mean, not to undervalue documentation, but the compiler should
> be able to function without it.  But not well versed in the intricacies
> of the GHC build, so please set me straight if I'm about to waste a lot
> of time untangling it in the makefiles.

I sent a patch for this to cvs-ghc@:

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2009-September/050255.html

I wasn't even aware of that ticket ;-)

Ciao,
	Kili


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