It requires a patch to cabal. I have such a patch. the patch provides an aditional config parameter which will allow you to configure the documentation directory but in absence of any setting will default to old behaviour. the patch is very rough JV. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Kilian" <kili@outback.escape.de> To: <haskell@haskell.org> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 3:08 AM Subject: [Haskell] Cabal, Haddock, and the location of documentation
Hi,
probably a PEBCAK, but working on updating all our Haskell-related OpenBSD ports, I've currently the problem, that, e.g. for Crypto the Haddock-generated documentation doesn't gets installed where I want it installed ;-)
The default obviously is something like $prefix/share/Crypto-$VERSION/doc/html, but I want $prefix/share/doc/Crypto-$VERSION, or, even preferrable, just $prefix/share/doc/Crypto. That's:
- $prefix/share/doc as base directory for all documentation, since that's the default on OpenBSD.
- no html subdirectory if not strictly necessary, because I don't like a doc directory containing nothing but a html directory.
- no version number in the directory name, because typically we don't have different versions of the same software installed at the same time -- there are exceptions from this rule, but I really don't plan to start maintaining several versions of one ore more Haskell packages ;-)
Is this configurable at Cabal/Haddock runtime? I'd try to play with --datadir, but this appears a little bit dangerous as a general approach, since some packages my actually come with real data, which should *not* go into $prefix/share/doc, of course.
Or do I have to patch Cabal? If so, what about adding just another FilePath like docdir to Distribution.SimpleLocalBuildInfo and use it for the documentation?
Ciao, Kili _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell