ghc-pkg should splice $topdir on Windows
On Windows, filepaths in the package database use $topdir
rather than including the absolute filesystem location, because the installation is independent of its final resting place. So we get things like this:
> ghc-pkg field base haddock-html
haddock-html: $topdir\html\libraries\base
Unfortunately this means that Haddock's --use-package
flag doesn't work, because it can't figure out what $topdir
is. The solution would be to either
-
have
ghc-pkg
splice in the actual value of$topdir
, or -
do the Windows installation in the same way as the Unix installation,
and replace
$topdir
inpackage.conf
at install time.
The second option probably involves more work.
Trac metadata
Trac field | Value |
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Version | 6.6 |
Type | Bug |
TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
Priority | normal |
Resolution | Unresolved |
Component | Compiler |
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Operating system | |
Architecture | Multiple |