ghc-pkg lies about location of haddock-interfaces and haddock-html

[avatar@…]

I installed ghc from ghc-6.4.1-1.i386.rpm. This places the haddock interfaces and haddock-documenation into /usr/share/doc/ghc-6.4.1/libraries. However

ghc-pkg field base haddock-interfaces /usr/share/ghc-6.4.1/html/libraries/base/base.haddock

which is wrong. (had to modify package.conf by hand)

Cheers,

Misha

Additional info:

SuSE 10 > uname -a Linux avatar 2.6.13-15.8-default #1 Tue Feb 7 11:07:24 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > ghc -v

Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 6.4.1, for Haskell 98, compiled by GHC version 6.4.1 Using package config file: /usr/lib/ghc-6.4.1/package.conf Using package config file: /home/avatar/.ghc/i386-linux-6.4.1/package.conf Hsc static flags: -static

[dcoutts@…]

The current Gentoo ghc ebuilds work around this bug like so:

make all datadir="/usr/share/doc/${PF}" || die "make failed"
# the explicit datadir is required to make the haddock entries
# in the package.conf file point to the right place ...

See:  http://haskell.org/~gentoo/gentoo-haskell/portage/dev-lang/ghc/