One more update:
cabal haddock exposes a --html-location flag which is useful:
http://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/installing-packages.html#setup-haddock
Another way of invoking haddock is through cabal install. It looks like
cabal install --enable-documentation and cabal install
It is possible. I have done it for
http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/doc/index.html
But it is not fun, and it took me several days of work (spread over
two weeks) to figure out the proper magic incantations to get
everything to work properly. I really ought to write up a blog post
with
Hello cafe,
For various reasons, some packages don't build documentation on hackage:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate
Therefore I want to locally install documentation for a set of packages
like this and host them on a separate website. I want all of these ~ten
packages'
This is sort of related to ticket #130:
http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/130
And this one seems to hint at a solution to the problem in the more
extensive syntax for --read-interface.
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3810
(My local haddock-2.10.0 --help doesn't mention
