#2020: configure script shipped with ghc is built by broken version of autoconf
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Reporter: bos | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.8.2
Severity: normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Architecture: Unknown
Os: Unknown |
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Changes (by igloo):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
We still want to be able to build on machines with older autoreconf's (as
some of the nightly builders, and probably some of the developer's
machines, still have it). That means that we can't rely on the docdir flag
existing, so we ignore its value.
You can specify docdir by setting the variable in `mk/build.mk`.
Unfortunately, this doesn't modify htmldir etc in the way that you would
expect. When building the Debian packages we put these lines in
`mk/build.mk`:
{{{
docdir := $(datarootdir)/doc/ghc6-doc
htmldir := $(docdir)
dvidir := $(docdir)
pdfdir := $(docdir)
psdir := $(docdir)
}}}
This code is due to be rewritten in 6.10 so that only the first line is
necessary: see #1924.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2020#comment:4>
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