[Haskell] Cabal, Haddock, and the location of documentation
Hi, probably a PEBCAK, but working on updating all our Haskell-related OpenBSD ports, I've currently the problem, that, e.g. for Crypto the Haddock-generated documentation doesn't gets installed where I want it installed ;-) The default obviously is something like $prefix/share/Crypto-$VERSION/doc/html, but I want $prefix/share/doc/Crypto-$VERSION, or, even preferrable, just $prefix/share/doc/Crypto. That's: - $prefix/share/doc as base directory for all documentation, since that's the default on OpenBSD. - no html subdirectory if not strictly necessary, because I don't like a doc directory containing nothing but a html directory. - no version number in the directory name, because typically we don't have different versions of the same software installed at the same time -- there are exceptions from this rule, but I really don't plan to start maintaining several versions of one ore more Haskell packages ;-) Is this configurable at Cabal/Haddock runtime? I'd try to play with --datadir, but this appears a little bit dangerous as a general approach, since some packages my actually come with real data, which should *not* go into $prefix/share/doc, of course. Or do I have to patch Cabal? If so, what about adding just another FilePath like docdir to Distribution.SimpleLocalBuildInfo and use it for the documentation? Ciao, Kili ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
Re: [Haskell] Cabal, Haddock, and the location of documentation
Moving discussion to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list... On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 19:08 +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: Hi, probably a PEBCAK, but working on updating all our Haskell-related OpenBSD ports, I've currently the problem, that, e.g. for Crypto the Haddock-generated documentation doesn't gets installed where I want it installed ;-) [...] Is this configurable at Cabal/Haddock runtime? I'd try to play with --datadir, but this appears a little bit dangerous as a general approach, since some packages my actually come with real data, which should *not* go into $prefix/share/doc, of course. Currently the docs do just use --datadir= and --datasubdir= . Or do I have to patch Cabal? If so, what about adding just another FilePath like docdir to Distribution.SimpleLocalBuildInfo and use it for the documentation? I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to follow the lead of autoconf here and have slightly finer grained control with respect to the kinds of files we're installing. Autoconf distinguishes docs (and various kinds of docs, html, ps, pdf, man etc) from the generic datadir. So yes, if you want to extend cabal in this direction I'm happy to review patches. Duncan ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
Re: [Haskell] Cabal, Haddock, and the location of documentation
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 06:22:43PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 19:08 +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: Or do I have to patch Cabal? If so, what about adding just another FilePath like docdir to Distribution.SimpleLocalBuildInfo and use it for the documentation? I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to follow the lead of autoconf here and have slightly finer grained control with respect to the kinds of files we're installing. Autoconf distinguishes docs (and various kinds of docs, html, ps, pdf, man etc) from the generic datadir. See also: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/140 It would be great for this to get fixed, as I currently have to jump through some hoops to get the docs where I want them in the Debian packages. Thanks Ian ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
