Peter Simons wrote:
I have some trouble building ghc from CVS HEAD. I'm not sure whether this applies to the release candidate version, too,
Nope...
but I figured I'd better report it anyway, just in case.
Fine, we like to hear about bugs... :-}
1) The build fails:
My fault, already fixed.
2) "make distclean" fails:
I'll have a look into it.
3) In order to build GHC's user manual and the documentation for the older libraries, I use the following bit of shell scripting before I run configure:
| DOCDIRS="alex ghc haddock happy hslibs libraries" | | for n in ${DOCDIRS}; do | echo >$n/mk/build.mk "SGMLDocWays := html" | done | | echo >mk/build.mk "SGMLDocWays := html"
But apparently, this has stopped working! [...]
Yes, SGML docs are dead, long live XML. :-) To e.g. recursively build all HTML documentation simply use make html or to recursively build and install all documentation in HTML and PostScript: make XMLDocWays="html ps" install-docs This reminds me of the fact that I should update the documentation in the HEAD a little bit... Furthermore, with our current build system there is no need for a build.mk anymore IMHO. Cheers, S.