On 23 April 2005 21:03, Benjamin Franksen wrote:

On Saturday 16 April 2005 03:22, Isaac Jones wrote:

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Ashley Yakeley writes:

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I've just started using Cabal, for my time library implementation (http://semantic.org/TimeLib/). I have some issues:

1. If I do "runghc Setup.hs haddock" and then "runghc Setup.hs install", the documentation doesn't appear to get installed anywhere.

Where do folks think that the docs should go?

This is highly system dependent and even linux distributions don't agree here. So:

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Or should we add a haddock-prefix flag to configure?

Yes. For unix like systems, a reasonable default (if no option is specified) could be /usr/local/share/doc.

Sure - this is only the default, we expect RPMs and other package systems to override it to match the local policy. A subdirectory of /usr/local/share/doc is the right thing on Unix systems. Cheers, Simon