#943: Synopsis field causes haddock build failure ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: davidt | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.14.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 7.4.1 Platform: Linux | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- For some reason the presence of the 'synopsis' field causes haddock documentation to fail to build. Steps: $ cabal unpack dclabel $ cabal configure $ cabal haddock {{{ Running Haddock for dclabel-0.0.6... Warning: The documentation for the following packages are not installed. No links will be generated to these packages: rts-1.0, cereal-0.3.5.1 Preprocessing library dclabel-0.0.6... <command line>: Could not find module `The' Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. }}} I assume something is mis-configured on my system but have no idea what and how to fix it Versions: {{{ $ cabal --version cabal-install version 0.14.0 using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.1 $ haddock --version Haddock version 2.10.0, (c) Simon Marlow 2006 Ported to use the GHC API by David Waern 2006-2008 }}} This is on Ubuntu Linux 11.10. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/943 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects