#11949: ghc bindist doesn't bundle up the assets needed for hyperlinked-source properly and doesn't treat certain base modules right -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: carter | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.0.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1-rc3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- i've had to copy some files that aren't shipped with ghc, or perhaps i need to reinstall haddock in userland? {{{ ~ $ haddock --hyperlinked-source haddock: internal error: /Users/carter/.install- ghc/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/lib/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/html/solarized.css: copyFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) ~ $ cp /Users/carter/.install- ghc/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/share/doc/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/html/libraries/base-4.9.0.0/src/style.css /Users/carter/.install- ghc/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/lib/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/html/solarized.css cp /Users/carter/.install- ghc/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/share/doc/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/html/libraries/base-4.9.0.0/src/highlight.js /Users/carter/.install- ghc/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/lib/ghc-8.0.0.20160417/html/highlight.js }}} additionally i need to set {{{ haddock-options: --hyperlinked-source }}} correctly in the ~/.cabal/config file, and if thats set wrong, source files are silently not generated as part of the docs, so debugging a typo there is pretty confusing! sooo... either way, there seems to be two missing asset files in my build! namely those two files i had to CP! as additional data, heres the customized perf build way i did {{{ EXTRA_HADDOCK_OPTS=--hyperlinked-source HADDOCK_DOCS = YES BUILD_SPHINX_HTML = YES BUILD_SPHINX_PDF = YES libraries/integer-gmp_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --configure-option=--with-intree- gmp }}} my "debugging technique" was to run `haddock --hyperlinked-source` and figure out what file is in the pretty builds and CP that over to the location haddock was complaining about and repeat -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11949 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler