#1880: Unify flag descriptions to generate both docs and code
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Reporter: simonmar | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.10 branch
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.8.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Architecture: Unknown
Os: Unknown |
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Comment (by claus):
something has gone wrong here, with all the ticket splitting and closing.
it seems that recent ghcs support neither `--print-docdir` nor anything
resembling `--full-flag-help`.
since i tend to work with multiple self-compiled ghcs more than with
installer versions, i'm still looking mainly for something commandline
based, exactly what the original #1226 tried to address.
at this stage, since my patch for #1226 was rejected, i'd be happy with a
minimal solution, with `ghc --full-flag-help`
- calling `man <path-to-version-specific-ghc.1>` where available
(including cygwin)
- do its own man-to-text conversion where `man` is not available; or reply
with the path to the version-specific flag reference html page (then i
could write a wrapper to start a browser with this)
(commandline output preferred, of course..)
btw, what happened to `--print-docdir`?
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