Arch Linux

Is there a standalone haddock package? If so, then it should provide haddock, otherwise not.

haddock is in the aur, but not in core/extra/community

Added provides haddock to ghc. This alone is not worth a rebuild and upload of a 100MB package, however

Am I mistaken, or there is no haddock included - only wrapper script? Haddock cannot be find and cannot be installed (because it is provided by ghc) - while /usr/bin/haddock is simple shell script that picks between haddock 0.x or 2.x - it actually should be disabled as gentoo does in utils/haddock/ghc.mk by setting utils/haddock_dist_INSTALL_SHELL_WRAPPER to no.

(actually after more detailed search - at least in 6.12.3 - there is haddock and utf8-string in sources, it is compiled, then it is used for build process - but isn't installed so also not registered in cabal database)

Is there some decision about what will happen with this? With stripped-down cabal-unaware haddock, one cannot get (currently only) Leksah to work without some renaming - because it depends on Haddock the library, not haddock the binary, about which Cabal have no idea, see the reverse deps on Hackage 2.0 - http://sparky.haskell.org:8080/package/haddock/reverse - also in Haskell Platform, Haddock 2.7.2 is recommended and cannot be installed, because ghc provides haddock 2.6 in binary form. I currently use version with haddock_dist_INSTALL_SHELL_WRAPPER set to no (I'm attaching pkgbuild and rest of files packed to this ticket), and then I can install both recommended haddock 2.7.2 (which contains like 30 more files than stripped down version that comes with ghc and registers with cabal) and leksah-server from aur or (how I do it now) directly from cabal.

If it will stay as it is now, what do you recommend to update haddock to recommended 2.7.2 and install leksah-server? Because I see no way to do it and I would really like to install haskell-platform from extra/community/eventually AUR and not manage it by hand.

Oh, and it also contains the build.mk file that I use to work around issue #20236 (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20236)

This issue is still valid for ghc-7.0.2-1

Is it not possible to build ghc so that it includes the haddock library (Documentation.Haddock)?

No, it's actually fixed in ghc-7.0.2-1.

The package does list that it provides 'haddock=2.9.2', but it doesn't provide it fully, i.e. it only provides the binary not the Haskell module 'Document.Haddock'.

Ah, indeed. Will investigate.

From a quick inspection, it would seem to me that the sanest solution to this would be to disable the binary like Andrzej suggests, add haddock to extra and have haskell-platform depend on it.

I'll attempt the platform rebuild using this strategy.

These packages are causing nasty dependency loops which make it more difficult to make upgrades. I'm currently consider having less strict dependencies on all packages that touch haddock to make it easier.

BTW, this is currently the last pending thing before ghc-7.0.2-2 et co.

This caused a hell of a cyclic dependency, so I reverted the whole thing. ghc-7.0.3-2 in testing now again provides the haddock wrapper script, and the haddock package itself will go to community.