I guess that cabal preprocesses the files before calling Haddock then. Perhaps that's why it asks me to `cabal configure` before `cabal haddock`ing =). If you're able to switch over to cabal, that may be the easiest solution.
Cheers, On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Evan Laforge <qdun...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm calling haddock myself. Cabal might have some special magic for CPP, > when I searched for "haddock CPP" I got some old bugs about adding cabal > support. So presumably it's possible. > > On Jul 12, 2013 1:15 PM, "Felipe Almeida Lessa" <felipe.le...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Are you using `cabal haddock` or calling haddock manually? >> >> Cheers, >> >> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Evan Laforge <qdun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > So haddock ignores {-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}, which makes it crash on any >> > file that uses it. But if you pass --optghc=-cpp, it runs CPP on >> > everything, which makes it crash on any file that uses string gaps, or >> > happens to contain a /*. /* is rare and easily fixed, but not string >> > gaps. >> > >> > It looks like a workaround would be to manually inspect the files for >> > LANGUAGE CPP and run two haddock passes, but then I would have to get >> > the two passes to cooperate creating a single TOC and index. >> > >> > Isn't there some way to run haddock on files that use CPP? >> > >> > In the broader scheme, it seems perverse to be using CPP in the first >> > place. I use it to configure imports and exports, e.g. to swap out a >> > driver backend on different OSes, and to export more symbols when >> > testing. Would it make sense to have a haskell version of CPP that >> > provides only these features (e.g. just #ifdef, #else, #endif, and >> > #define) and leaves out the problematic C comments and backslash >> > expectations? >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> >> >> >> -- >> Felipe. -- Felipe. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe