On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 22:23 +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 06:22:43PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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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.

Ok, I'll give it a try, but it'll take a while (a week or two). First I've to get all the OpenBSD ports updated (including horrible workarounds for the missing docdir option). Everything else would be maintainance hell for me ;-)

Anyway, what are the requirements/whishes?

- Just docdir, maybe htmlsubdir or haddocksubdir - Or docdir and separate htmldir / haddockdir - Something more flexible

The last comment in bug #140 from Ross seems a sensible suggestion. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/140 haddockPref determines where the documentation is built; mkHaddockDir says where it is installed, currently $datadir/$datasubdir/doc/html/$pkg, where $datasubdir defaults to $pkgid. That default doesn't seem right in any case. Perhaps we want --docdir (defaulting to $prefix/share/doc on Unix and something else on Windows) --htmlsubdir (defaulting to $pkgid/html) Duncan