I think any flavour can run the docs target.
On 26/04/15 15:53, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote:
You should not use the release flavour for development because it omits
all recompilation info (for packaging determinism reasons). So, when using
that flavour, recompilation checking does not work.
wow, thank you -- I had no idea. That would be super useful info to add to
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/blob/master/hadrian/doc/flavours.md
I believe you should be able to use almost any other flavour. For example,
--devel2 will be able to run the docs target.
how can I tell which flavour(s) can "run the docs target"?
Simon
On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 at 14:34, Sam Derbyshire <[email protected]>
wrote:
Simon,
You should not use the release flavour for development because it omits
all recompilation info (for packaging determinism reasons). So, when using
that flavour, recompilation checking does not work.
I believe you should be able to use almost any other flavour. For example,
--devel2 will be able to run the docs target.
Sam
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