On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Kari Pahula <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've just uploaded haddock 2.4.1-1, ghc6 6.10.1-1 and a new build of > mtl library to experimental. > > Haddock wants to be built with the same version of GHC that it > generates documents for. "Haddock's internal GHC version must match > the configured GHC version", as it says. That means that, when it's > time to push this into unstable, I'll need to: > > 1) upload haddock and have it build against ghc 6.8.2 > 2) upload ghc6, which has a build dep on haddock (>= 2.4.1) > 3) upload haddock again, so that it's built with ghc 6.10.1 > 4) upload ghc6 again, so that ghc6-doc gets built correctly > > The first step is probably unnecessary, but I'd like to stick haddock > (>= 2.4.1) as a build dep for ghc6 right away. Would it work to just patch the haddock source in utils/haddock to version 2.4.1? The standard ghc 6.10 source distro builds haddock, you could split it into a separate binary package.
