2009/1/31 Andrew Coppin <[email protected]>: > In celebration of Hackage reachin over 1,000 unique packages, I decided that > I would re-visit the problem of attempting to build them on Windows. > > I began by removing all existing Haskellness from my PC. I now have a > vanilla Windows XP (32-bit) system with Service Pack 3. So, let's see what > we can do here... > > - Install GHC 6.10.1. As you'd expect, no issues here. > > - Now, let's install stream-fusion. First let me ch... woah! What the hell? > > OK, it seems that Google is temporarily "broken". (All websites show up as > "this site may damange your computer".) Obviously this has nothing to do > with Haskell, but it makes navigating Hackage moderately more tedious. Oh > well, anyway, where was I? > > Ah yes, I already have the tarball for stream-fusion-0.1.1, but I see that > the latest release is 0.1.2.1. (Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be > any way to determine what the difference is between the two versions...) > > - Right, I've got the tarball for stream-fusion. Now let's see if it will > install... > > J:\Haskell\unpack> runhaskell Setup configure > J:\Haskell\unpack> runhaskell Setup build > J:\Haskell\unpack> runhaskell Setup install > J:\Haskell\unpack> ghc-pkg list > ...stream-fusion-0.1.2.1... > > OK, nothing much wrong with that then. :-D > > - Hmm, doesn't GHC 6.10.1 now come with Haddock included? I wonder if > there's a way to ask Cabal to build the docs for me... > > [Grr! Google is still busted.] > > Ah, yes there is. OK, let's try this: > > J:\Haskell\unpack> runhaskell Setup haddock > ... > Data\Stream.hs:292:33: parse error on input `!' > haddock: Failed to check module: Data.Stream > > Uh... OK. So I guess I *won't* build the docs for that one then. :-/ Oh > well, maybe it's a one-off failure? Let's try some more packages...
The problem there is that stream-fusion is trying to put documentation on individual data constructor arguments which is not supported by Haddock. David _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
