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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
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