Docs are installed to a peculiar location

[bos]

Working with the ghc-6.8.2.20080603 snapshot, I run into a problem whereby the generated haddocks are installed to the root of the filesystem, instead of the destination I specify.

This is a change in behaviour from 6.8.2.

(By the way, I'm using haddock 0.8, if that has any significance.)

Here is how I am setting up the build:

./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man

After the main build succeeds, I install as follows:

make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/ghc-6.8.2.20080603-1.fc9-root-bos libdir=/usr/lib64/ghc-6.8.2.20080603 install
make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/ghc-6.8.2.20080603-1.fc9-root-bos XMLDocWays=html HADDOCK_DOCS=YES install-docs

The main install target seems to have no problems, but install-docs installs everything to $DESTDIR, not to the docdir subdirectory of $DESTDIR that used to work with 6.8.2.

[igloo]

I don't understand what's going on here. Do you have a mk/build.mk? What other commands are you running? Just plain make between configuring and installing? install-docs shouldn't be installing the haddocks, install should be.

[bos]

Build log

[bos]

Build instructions

[bos]

I've attached the build instructions as ghc.spec and the log as rpmbuild.out.bz2. You can see the commands being executed in the log file by searching for lines beginning with "+ ".

The build.mk file is simple:

cat <<HADDOCK_PATH_HACK >> mk/build.mk
docdir  := %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}
htmldir := $(docdir)
dvidir  := $(docdir)
pdfdir  := $(docdir)
psdir   := $(docdir)
HADDOCK_PATH_HACK

This hackery was necessary under ghc 6.8.2.

[igloo]

The problem is that this was generating mk/build.mk containing:

docdir  := /usr/share/doc/ghc-6.8.2.20080603
htmldir := 
dvidir  := 
pdfdir  := 
psdir   :=