>>>>> "Manuel" == Manuel M T Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As already pointed out by some people, you need the DocBook
> tools to build the documentation.
After a _lot_ of ferreting round the net, I found db2dvi in
stylesheets-0.10-2.i386.rpm. (Actually, it's not in
docbook-3.1-5.i386.rpm, or psgml-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm, or
sgml-tools-1.0.9-5.i386.rpm, or jade-1.2.1-9.i386.rpm, or ...) The
adjective `exotic' seems apt. (By the way, the docbook web page
says that the project has been suspended.) I suppose the problem here
is that the ghc people (laudably, sensibly, etc, ..) want a doc package
that makes rtf as well as the usual unix doc formats.
> Maybe I can make the building of the documentation
> conditional (but then I can already imagine the ``I build
> from source and now can't find the documentation bug
> reports'').
> Any ideas?
Check for the existence of db2dvi in the configure phase, and fail
then, rather than right at the end of a (long and machine-crucifying)
build? (From
http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/rpm3.0/building.html,..)
"RPM 3.0 supports build prerequisites. A build prerequisite permits a
source package to check whether all the components necessary to build
a package are installed on the build system."
>> It would be great if at least one haskell system could get into the
>> standard linux distributions. ...
> Sure - any idea how to get Red Hat to include the stuff?
I've asked a (busy) friend who works for redhat. I'll pass on any
info if/when he replies. I think ghc would probably be a "contrib"
package. For redhat, "We do not guarentee that they will work, fix
anything etc. They are just a public service that we lend to users (ie
a central repository)."
Finally, in case I am giving the wrong impression, thanks _very_ much
for taking the trouble to make a src.rpm.
