Documentation missing from MacOS PPC binary

[guest]

The installation from the MacOS PPC binary distribution works fine but ends with

=======================================================================
Installation of ghc-6.6 was successful.

To use, add /usr/local/bin to your PATH.

For documentation, see /usr/local/share/ghc-6.6/html/index.html
=======================================================================

However, there is no documentation there, nor does make html work. And unfortunately for us who often work offline, there doesn't seem to be a separate download for the documentation.

[guest]

Ahh...there *is* a separate download for documentation for offline use (e.g., gzipped HTML), but it only appears on the documentation page, not the download page. So it's less a missing-functionality issue than a website usability issue. Perhaps the documentation downloads should be mentioned on the download page.

[guest]

And now I see that there is the download page I went to ( http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_66.html) which *doesn't* mention documentation and a download page that *does* mention documentation (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download.html). I think adding mention of downloadable documentation to the 6.6 page and fixing the Makefile to mention documentation only if it installs it should be enough to close this bug.

[guest]

This ticket addresses a problem with  http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.6/ghc-6.6-ppc-apple-darwin.tar.gz. The message that indicates the presence of the documentation is produced because the package includes the file share/html/index.html. However, the documentation is, indeed, missing.

I have not been able to produce a binary that includes share/html/index.html and not the rest of the .html documentation with ordinary use of the GHC building system. So I don't believe that an error in the present building system is indicated.

I don't believe it is worthwhile to fix this for release 6.6, but we should have it in mind for the next release.

Thorkil