mechvel:
Dear GHC supporters,
I have made ghc-6.4 from source by binary itself (Linux, Debian 3.1):
cd ghc/6.4/ghc-6.4/ ./configure --prefix=foo make make install
But it is so hard to obtain documentation! I tried make html (in the same directory). It reports
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ===fptools== Recursively making `html' in glafp-utils ghc libraries hslibs docs ... PWD = /home/mechvel/ghc/6.4/ghc-6.4 -- ... ... rm -f -rf users_guide/ stringparam base.dir users_guide/ \ --stringparam use.id.as.filename 1 \ --stringparam html.stylesheet fptools.css \ --stringparam toc.section.depth 3 --stringparam section.autolabel 1 --stringparam section.label.includes.component.label 1 \ /html/chunk.xsl users_guide.xml make[3]: stringparam: Command not found ... ************************************************************
The user has managed to make GHC: a big deal. And now has problems with making docs. This looks strange. Why not provide, say, a couple of ready .ps files for user guide and library guide? And if it is .html, let them be ready .html files.
It *is* hard to build the documentation, but luckily ghc releases are also accompanied by documentation releases. Some useful docs for 6.4 are at: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/documentation.html including: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/libraries.html.tar.gz http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/users_guide.ps.gz Cheers, Don