No links will be generated to these packages: base-4.3.0.0
As reported earlier, (point 6. in #4292 (closed)), running haddock (via cabal) leads to missing documentation links. This was assumed fixed (comment:4:#4292 (closed)), but apparently not tested - the problem still exists (to reproduce, cabal-install anything that uses base types in its documentation, on top of a 7.0.1 windows install, with documentation enabled). As I can't see similar failures in hackage build reports, I guess the issue is Windows-specific.
From bug report to guessing at causes:
My current best bet is the occurrence of unescaped backslashes in filepaths in ghc-pkg fields (I seem to recall an implicit contract that these fields are supposed to be valid Haskell Strings?). As a general remark, using forward-slashes seems to be less error-prone.
Cabal (which generates these warnings, in Distribution/Simple/Haddock.hs) seems to parse these fields as Haskell Strings, and fails when doesFileExist can't find the .haddock interface file.
haddock-interfaces: $topdir/../doc/html/libraries/base-4.3.0.0\base.haddockThere are other fields in ghc-pkg output that have unescaped backslashes in file names (the *-dirs family), so apparently the Haskell String contract is just my imagination?
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| Version | 7.0.1 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Compiler |
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