building haddock?

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jan 31 07:30:01 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 12:17 +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Quick question:  how do I build Haddock from the darcs repo?

You need a later version of Cabal. Later than 1.1.3.

>     Could not find module `Paths_Haddock':
>       use -v to see a list of the files searched for
>       (imported from Main.hs)
> 
> And now I'm stuck.  There genuinely is no module called Paths_Haddock.

This module is generated by Cabal. But not in Cabal 1.1.3, a later
version.


We really need a field:

cabal-depends: 1.1.4

So that older versions of Cabal can say "you need version
${cabal-depends} of Cabal to build this package".

Duncan



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